The Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga has described the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) as a “camp for the politically displaced and desperate” with no concrete plans for Nigeria.
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 decided to look through its manifesto.
But a search on the party’s website for the document yielded nothing, which he said left him disappointed.
Out of sheer curiosity I have twice in the last few days googled the website of the Nigeria Democratic Party (NDC), the party that the political wanderer Peter Obi and his ally, Rabiu Kwankwaso, sought shelter in after abandoning the ADC midstream, the presidential aide said.
“I was interested in the party’s manifesto and if it has enunciated a markedly 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. Each time I tried to download the manifesto, I was told ‘no document found’. The party whose national leader, Senator Seriake Dickson had said would wage an ideological battle in the 2027 poll, has not uploaded any manifesto since it was court-registered in February. What it parades are six policy nuggets it called pillars.
“However the nuggets don’t read as pillars. “They sound more like the platitudes the party’s latest catch, Peter Obi, has bombed the nation with in the last six years.”
He challenged the party’s founder and Senator for Bayelsa West, Seriake Dickson, to unveil the party’s plans for Nigerians.
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