The All Progressives Congress on Tuesday insisted that President Goodluck Jonathan and his administration have failed Nigerians in all regard.
The APC said that contrary to the position of the Presidency that the poll on which it based its conclusion that Jonathan scored very low with Nigerians was conducted by the party, the survey was carried out by professionals.
The Interim National Publicity Secretary of the party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, told newsmen on Tuesday that indeed Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party have failed Nigerians.
Mohammed said: “Unfortunately, not everyone who read our statement understood it, hence the totally unnecessary and clearly misplaced criticism by the presidency, which tagged our effort ‘Voodoo Polling’ and said it does not know when the APC became an expert on opinion poll.
“We have no doubt that the methodology adopted to evolve our Road map and the results of our survey took the Presidency by surprise and rankled them so much, since they haven’t seen any unbiased survey results in quite some time.
“Well, it is common knowledge that the truth sometimes hurts but facts are facts.
“And before we review our survey results again, let’s make the following clarification:
“First, the Presidency was clearly confused. They seemed to think the APC conducted this survey ourselves. No, they got things wrong.
“Unlike the PDP, we do not conduct surveys ourselves; instead, we commission professionals to conduct our polls. We use experts in the field so that the results are accurate and above reproach. In this instance our poll was conducted by KA Research Limited, Africa Division. It was the largest survey of its kind ever conducted in Nigeria.I understand how this might have been confusing to the Presidency, since the PDP does not use unbiased, professional pollsters.
“That explains why the results were such a shock to the PDP. The Presidency suggested we were practicing some kind of voodoo, it seems that the voodoo is coming entirely from the PDP and its survey company.
“Second, just who is the PDP/Presidency’s polling company? It is a firm named NOI Polls. And just who is this firm? Do those initials ring a bell with anyone? The Presidency’s pollster is none other than Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Coordinating Minister herself!
“And considering she has recently lost track of more than 20 Billion dollars at the NNPC, why would anyone trust any numbers she ever produced?
“If there’s anyone practicing voodoo, it’s NOI polls. And when you ask the Coordinating Minister about her polling company, make sure to also ask her about the money that’s disappeared, and that the people of Nigeria need their money back!”
Mohammed said the party had concluded plans to launch its roadmap at a summit on Thursday.
He said this will clearly showed those who are confused, especially the Presidency, that the APC understood what the issues are in Nigeria.
He said: “The Summit, which is strictly by invitation, will be held at the Transcorp Hilton, Abuja, starting from 9 a.m. and the Keynote Speaker will be a former Minister of Education, Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesili.
“As we said in our statement, the Road map will detail APC’s priorities in fixing the widespread failings of successive PDP governments since 1999, in order to bring hope and succour to the long-suffering people of Nigeria.
“We also said the Road map was a product of an empirical and painstaking process embarked upon by our party, in a departure from the old practice of packaging such documents on a whim.”
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