The APC That Has Never Been In Power At The Federal Level Is To Blame For All Nigeria’s Problems

APC is to blame for fuel scarcity.
APC is to blame for the kidnap of the Chibok girls.
APC is to blame for 30 minutes per week power supply.
APC is to blame for the fall in the value of the naira.
APC is to blame for the missing $20b.
APC is to blame for the loss of 500k barrels of crude oil and $50m per day to oil theft for 4 years when crude oil sold above $100 per barrel.
APC is to blame for the comatose state of Nigeria’s healthcare system.
APC is to blame for the incessant strikes of the last 16 years by medical doctors and healthcare workers.
APC is to blame for the drastic fall in the price of crude oil.
APC is to blame for the loss of over $54b to a so called power infrastructure development for the last 16 years which has not led to any improvement in power supply.
APC is to blame for the loss of N4.34 trillion out of N4.4 trillion of Nigeria’s defense budget of the last 5 years to corruption.
APC is to blame for the failure of the government to arm the armed forces with modern weapons and military hardware.
APC is to blame for the failure to diversify the Nigerian economy for 16 years.
APC is to blame for the loss of over 25k lives to insurgency.
APC is to blame for the displacement of over 2m people from their homes because of insurgency.
APC is to blame for the death of over 30 people at the NIS recruitment exercise of 2014 after over 600k unemployed graduates were charged N1k each for the filling of 5k vacancies.
APC is to blame for the horrible state of 90% of federal roads in Nigeria.
APC is to blame for the raiding of the Excess Crude account that dipped from $20b to $1b under GEJ.
APC is to blame for the rise in the rate of unemployment from 24% to 65%.
APC is to blame for massive failures recorded in NECO and WAEC exams in Nigeria in the last 5 years.
APC is to blame for disobedience of court orders by the FG and its agencies. .
APC is to blame for the reduction of our Foreign Reserve from over $60b in 2008 to $32b today.
APC is to blame for the high rate of crime in the country even though the police force is a federal force under the control of the PDP led Federal Government.
APC is to blame for the fall in the standard of education in Nigeria.
APC is to blame for a Ministry of Water Resources that has produced zero water under GEJ and fails to encourage private investment in water generation and distribution.
APC is to blame for the dwarfing of our stature and status in the comity of nations.
APC is to blame for a situation where poor nations like Chad, Niger, and Cameroon are helping us to maintain our territorial integrity.
APC is to blame for the failure of GEJ to present evidence of his Ph.D degree and dissertation.
APC is to blame for all the ASUU strikes of the last 16 years.
APC is to blame for all the ASUP strikes of the last 16 years.
APC is to blame for Nigeria declining from a nation that sent troops to countries like Chad, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Congo, etc to help end civil wars in those countries to a country that is now begging other countries to rescue its crippled army from rag tag, school-boy insurgents.
APC is to blame for the donation of 10% of Nigeria’s territory to Boko Haram by GEJ and his incompetent service chiefs who specialty now is forcing shifts in dates of elections.
APC is to blame for the failure of the current administration to tackle insurgency for 6 years and for its alleged magical ability to now crush the insurgency within 6 weeks.
APC is to blame for the continuous rise in the prices of essential commodities in the midst of the so called revolution in the agric. sector of the last 5 years.
APC is to blame for the failure of the President of Nigeria to address the international community on three different occasions overseas because he got himself drunk into stupor.
APC is to blame for the President’s decision to maintain 11 Presidential Jets when the Prime Ministers of Britain and Australia travel on commercial flights.
APC is to blame for the Presidency budgeting N5m per day for food.
APC is to blame for the presidency budgeting N17b for power generators.
APC is to blame for the loss of N30 trillion to corruption at the federal level in just 5 years.
APC is to blame for the failure of the FG to pay the salary of civil servants.
APC is to blame for 16>19, 7>19 and 6>19 political calculation.
APC is to blame for the forced shift in the date of the Presidential poll from Feb. 14th to March 28.
APC is to blame for INEC’s adoption of the idea of PVCs and card readers.
APC is to blame for the INEC Chairman’s insistence on conducting free and fair elections.
APC is responsible for selecting election rigging dream teams made up of expert riggers like Obanikoro, Brigadier Momoh, Adesiyan, and Fayose.
APC is to blame for the collapse of the Nigerian stock market.
APC is responsible for the displacement of 7 communities in Abuja in order to give the President 90 hectares of land for farming.
APC is to blame for the loss of $1b in the aviation sector which was allegedly spent on fake airport remodeling contracts.
APC is to blame for the waste of N10b of government funds by the Petroleum Minister on chattering of private jets for her personal use.
APC is to blame for the federal fuel subsidy scandal to which Nigeria lost N2.7 trillion naira within 2 years.
APC is to blame for the kerosene subsidy scandal that so far has gulped about $20b of Nigeria’s money.
APC is to blame for the lies of the Petroleum Minister that kerosene is being sold at 50 per liter when in actual fact it has been selling at between N120 and N150 per liter in the last 4 years.
APC is to blame for the brazen corruption costing Nigeria billions of dollars and emanating from UBEC, ECOLOGICAL FUNDS, PENSION FUNDS ADMINISTRATION, SURE-P, NDDC, NIMASSA etc.
APC is to blame for all Nigeria’s problems created and left unattended to in the last 16 years in which the PDP has been in power at the Federal level even though APC came into existence less than 2 years ago.
If you believe the lies of the PDP that APC is responsible for all the problems of Nigeria foisted on Nigeria and created for Nigeria by the PDP in the last 16 years then you need to sit down and ponder on the points made in this opinion piece which is laden with sarcasm to highlight the daftness of the arguments that the PDP has been making in this election season which is calculated to deceive and mislead Nigerian voters.
All Nigerian voters should ensure that they vote out the PDP and President Jonathan at all levels on March 28th and April 11th. Show the PDP that their poor level of governance is not acceptable in this modern day and age.

Bunmi Awoyemi, Ph.D,  the author of this opinion piece, writes in from New Orleans, Louisiana and is a public affairs analyst, lawyer and entrepreneur.