Buhari, APC’s Misrule Caused Twitter To Choose Ghana Over Nigeria — PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Wednesday, observed that
“the unabating misrule of the Buhari Presidency and the All
Progressives Congress (APC)” pushed Twitter to take its African
Headquarters to Ghana instead of Nigeria, despite the fact that
Nigeria has far more Twitter traffic and more business prospects
than Ghana.

In a statement issued by Kola Ologbondiyan, National Publicity
Secretary the main opposition party said Twitter’s preference for
Ghana over Nigeria was occasioned by “inconsistent economic
policies, obnoxious suppression of free speech, stifling of online
freedom and open internet by the Buhari administration and the
APC.”

It read in part: “This is 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 by their incompetent watch.

“Indeed the decision by Twitter to bypass 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.

“It is sad that our nation has continued to lose huge foreign
direct investments, which would have brought in more economic
opportunities, especially for our youths, just because the Buhari
Presidency and the APC lack the capacity to deliver on good
governance.

“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.

“It is indeed disturbing that the Buhari administration is
taking no decisive steps to address the worsening situation in our
country, which has become the world poverty capital under their
watch.

“The incompetence, insensitivity, corruption and laid-back
attitude of the Buhari administration have continued to bring woes
to our nation with an escalated 33 per cent 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 on the saddle.”

The PDP, therefore, charged Nigerians to remain focused as “we
collectively rally on the opportunities granted by democracy to
rescue our nation from the stranglehold of APC misrule.”

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Wednesday, observed that
“the unabating misrule of the Buhari Presidency and the All
Progressives Congress (APC)” pushed Twitter to take its African
Headquarters to Ghana instead of Nigeria, despite the fact that
Nigeria has far more Twitter traffic and more business prospects
than Ghana.

In a statement issued by Kola Ologbondiyan, National Publicity
Secretary the main opposition party said Twitter’s preference for
Ghana over Nigeria was occasioned by “inconsistent economic
policies, obnoxious suppression of free speech, stifling of online
freedom and open internet by the Buhari administration and the
APC.”

It read in part: “This is 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 by their incompetent watch.

“Indeed the decision by Twitter to bypass 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.

“It is sad that our nation has continued to lose huge foreign
direct investments, which would have brought in more economic
opportunities, especially for our youths, just because the Buhari
Presidency and the APC lack the capacity to deliver on good
governance.

“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.

“It is indeed disturbing that the Buhari administration is
taking no decisive steps to address the worsening situation in our
country, which has become the world poverty capital under their
watch.

“The incompetence, insensitivity, corruption and laid-back
attitude of the Buhari administration have continued to bring woes
to our nation with an escalated 33 per cent 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 on the saddle.”

The PDP, therefore, charged Nigerians to remain focused as “we
collectively rally on the opportunities granted by democracy to
rescue our nation from the stranglehold of APC misrule.”