Onanuga Claims NDC Has No Clear Plan For Nigeria’s Future

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”.

This was contained in a social media post on Friday, almost 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 go through its manifesto.

“But a check on the party’s website for the document did not produce 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 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 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’. 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 its court registration in February. What it flaunts are six policy nuggets that it described as 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 challenged the party’s founder and Senator for Bayelsa West, Seriake Dickson to open up the party’s agenda for Nigerians.