The Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga has accused the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) of having no concrete plans for Nigeria, describing it as a “camp for the politically displaced and desperate”.
He said this in a social media post on Friday, nearly a week after opposition figures Peter Obi and Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso joined the party.
Onanuga said he was interested in the party’s plans for Nigerians and he decided to go through its manifesto.
However, he said, a check on the party’s website for the document did not yield any results, which he said left him disappointed.
The presidential aide said he had Googled the website of the Nigeria Democratic Party (NDC) twice in the last few days, purely out of curiosity, the party where the political wanderer Peter Obi and his ally, Rabiu Kwankwaso, sought shelter after abandoning the ADC midstream.
“I was interested in the party’s manifesto and if it has articulated a significantly different vision for the governance of Nigeria, better than President Tinubu’s and the APC’s Renewed Hope Agenda.
“I was let down. The site invited visitors to click its manifesto to read it, but the result was negative. Every time I tried to download the manifesto, I was told ‘no document found’. Since its court registration in February, the party whose national leader, Senator Seriake Dickson had said would wage an ideological battle in the 2027 poll, has not uploaded any manifesto. What it parades are six policy nuggets it calls pillars.
“However the nuggets don’t read like pillars. “They sound more like the platitudes the party’s latest catch, Peter Obi, has bombarded the nation with in the last six years.”
He dared the party’s founder and Senator for Bayelsa West, Seriake Dickson, to unveil the party’s plans for Nigerians.
