The ruling All Progressives Congress has criticized the African Democratic Congress (ADC) over its repeated attacks on the party, describing them as baseless and unlikely to win public support.
In a statement issued on Saturday, the APC’s National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, accused the ADC of failing to define itself as a political party or offer any concrete policy alternatives.
According to him, the opposition’s strategy revolves solely around condemning the APC and its policies, without presenting viable solutions.
Morka specifically reacted to ADC claims that the APC’s policies had impoverished Nigerians, saying the party’s attacks demonstrated either ignorance of economic policy or a deliberate refusal to acknowledge the rationale behind ongoing economic reforms.
He cited a recent report presented at the Agora Policy Dialogue, which indicated a rise in the poverty rate from 49 to 63 percent, noting that the report itself highlighted the necessity of reforms to address structural economic challenges.
“It is a matter of national consensus that the fuel subsidy and foreign exchange regimes, as they existed before May 29, 2023, threatened Nigeria’s economic survival,” Morka said.
He added that President Bola Tinubu had acted decisively to remove fuel subsidies and harmonize multiple foreign exchange regimes, describing these moves as bold policy shifts that set the stage for economic recovery and resilience.
Morka emphasised that the fuel subsidy system had long been a drain on public finances, consuming trillions of Naira annually while benefiting few and enabling corruption, smuggling, and enrichment of middlemen and import cartels.
The resources freed from these reforms are now being redirected to infrastructure, education, healthcare, and social development.
“The ADC continues to wallow in the idea that its empty attacks will somehow endear the party to Nigerians.
But Nigerians are, by far, smarter than that,” Morka said, adding that condemning APC policies has become the ADC’s “operating manifesto,” while offering no substantive alternative.
