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The governing All Progressives Congress (APC) says the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is trying to distract President Muhammadu Buhari with a litany of “jejune” statements.

The party was reacting to a statement in which the PDP claimed the president lacked “clearcut fiscal policy direction and urged him to focus on revamping the economy instead of witch-hunting perceived political opponents.

It described PDP’s  latest statement as “part of the opposition’s ploy to distract the Buhari administration from its onerous task of putting the nation on a sound footing”.

In a statement issued in Lagos on Monday by its spokesman, Lai Mohammed, APC said: “The PDP’s statement was a litany of delusional self praise, rather than a genuine concern about the nation’s well-being.

”The question the PDP should ask itself is that if it had laid a solid foundation for the economy in its 16 years in charge, could such a foundation have given way in just three months of a new administration?

”If the PDP had been as fantastic as its statement had portrayed, it would still be the ruling, rather than the opposition party that it is now.

”It is therefore important for the PDP to concentrate its attention on remaking its tattered image rather than continuing to act as a desperate attention-seeking opposition.”