President Muhammadu Buhari
Olusola Fabiyi, Abuja
The Peoples Democratic Party has said it
will use the social media to expose the corruption and the failure of
the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration.
The Deputy National Chairman of the
party (South), Mr. Yemisi Akinwumi, said this in Abuja on Wednesday at
an interactive session of the PDP youth groups, under the leadership of
the party’s National Youth Leader, Mr. Sunday Udeh-Okoye.
Akinwumi said, “Our journey to power is
what we have started today, the initiatives that our national youth
leader has put together. Take charge of the Internet, control the
Internet. Let three quarters of what we are going to read there be
against the All Progressives Congress.
“Expose their faults and mistakes, which
include the killing of farmers in Benue, the fuel scarcity that is
affecting all of us, the APC convention that did not hold till today.
“Talk about the fall of the naira, unemployment and others everywhere.”
Akinwunmi also flayed the Minister of
Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), for his alleged
failure to deliver on his mandate.
“Fashola said a serious government will
fix power in six months. Almost three years now, they have not done
anything. Things are getting worse every day,” he added.
He decried what he termed the
“selective” prosecution of the war against corruption, alleging that
what the Buhari administration had done so far was to single out PDP
members for persecution.
He said, “When it is a matter involving
their members, they set up administrative panels of inquiry. If it is
the PDP, they use the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the
Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission.
Their anti-corruption crusade is selective. Let us be reading all these
on the Internet.
“They only grabbed power but they did
not plan for governance at all. The campaign for 2019 would be very
little if we can manage our youths very well.
“Even in the remotest part of the
country, you must get something to read. Let us dominate the Internet
and the airwaves to expose them. They don’t have anything upstairs.”
Earlier in his address, Udeh-Okoye asked
the various youth groups to join forces with him to oust the APC in
2019, adding that getting the PDP back to power was what informed his
decision to vie for the office of the national youth leader of the
party.
“This task isn’t one I can do alone;
I need all hands to be on deck to mobilise and sensitise every young
person across the length and breadth of Nigeria on the need to oust the
APC-led government of President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2019 election,”
he said.