BEVERLY HILLS, April 14, (THEWILL) – The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has lamented what it called the unabated misrule by the Buhari Presidency and the All Progressives Congress (APC), saying this pushed Twitter to take its African Headquarters to Ghana instead of Nigeria, despite the fact that the largest black nation had far more of the platform’s traffic and more business prospects.
The PDP, in a release signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, on Wednesday said Twitter’s preference for Ghana over Nigeria was a fallout of the inconsistent economic policies, obnoxious suppression of free speech, stifling of online freedom and open internet by the Buhari administration and the APC.
The party said this was in addition to infrastructural decay, massive corruption and manifest failure of the Buhari Presidency and the APC to address the escalated insecurity brought upon our nation under their incompetent watch.
The opposition party said: “Indeed the decision by Twitter to by-pass Nigeria to locate its African operational base in Ghana is another sad commentary of how our nation, which was hitherto a global investment hub under the PDP, has now been so degraded in global economic competitiveness under the APC.
“Nigerians were heavily despaired on Monday when the founder of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, announced that his company will be setting up its headquarters on the continent in Ghana despite Nigeria’s domineering twitter traffic in the sub region.
“With an estimated 39.6 million twitter subscribers in Nigeria, which is bigger than the population of Ghana, Nigeria ought to be the destination, but for the anti-people policies of the APC administration.”
PDP further expressed sadness that the nation had continued to lose huge foreign direct investments, which would have brought in more economic opportunities, especially for the youth, just because the Buhari Presidency and the APC lacked the capacity to deliver on good governance.
It said: “The preference by Twitter for Ghana over Nigeria has further demonstrated that the Buhari administration’s claims on ease of doing business in Nigeria are mere media hypes.
“Moreover, if President Buhari and the APC have the interest of the struggling youth demography of our nation at heart, they ought to have taken the necessary proactive steps to ensure that Twitter brought this huge investment to Nigeria, particularly given that we have the highest number of Twitter users on the continent.”
PDP said it was disturbing that the Buhari administration was taking no decisive steps to address the worsening situation in the country, making it the world poverty capital under their watch.
The party submitted: ‘”The incompetence, insensitivity, corruption and laid-back attitude of the Buhari administration have continued to bring woes to our nation with an escalated 33% unemployment rate, closure of over 40 million hitherto vibrant businesses with millions of families now unable to afford the basic necessities of life.
“It is painful that despite our national potentials, President Buhari administration has not shown the required commitment of engaging foreign investors and captains of industries to attract investments as being done by Presidents of other countries.
“Instead the Buhari Presidency is only interested in accumulating foreign loans and mortgaging the future of our nation.
“It has therefore become clearer that our nation cannot achieve any headway with the APC in the saddle.”
The PDP therefore charged Nigerians to remain focused “as we collectively rally on the opportunities granted by democracy to rescue the nation from the stranglehold of APC misrule”
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AYO ESAN, has been actively reporting and analyzing political events for different newspapers for over 18 years. He has also successfully covered national and state elections in Nigeria since the inception of this democracy in 1999.
