{"id":144743,"date":"2025-01-04T11:49:20","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T10:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/buhari-monumental-disaster-tinubu-taking-nigeria-100-years-back-pdp-chieftain-okeke"},"modified":"2025-01-04T12:54:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T11:54:45","slug":"buhari-monumental-disaster-tinubu-taking-nigeria-100-years-back-pdp-chieftain-okeke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/buhari-monumental-disaster-tinubu-taking-nigeria-100-years-back-pdp-chieftain-okeke","title":{"rendered":"Buhari monumental disaster, Tinubu taking Nigeria 100 years back  \u2013 PDP chieftain, Okeke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A former spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Delta State, Tony Okeke, has taken a swipe at the leadership of President Bola Tinubu and that of his predecessor Muhammadu Buhari.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that Tinubu, of the All Progressives Congress, APC, took over from Buhari, his party member, in May 2023.<\/p>\n<p>However, Okeke emphatically stated that both men had taken the country backward.<\/p>\n<p>The PDP chieftain said this on Friday during an interview on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn law, we say you cannot build something on nothing. The last administration [of Buhari] took this country like 50 years back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe present administration, I think, is trying to take us like 100 years back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe election of 2023 would have been the easiest election for the PDP to win because there were eight years of monumental disaster by the Buhari administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople were fed up because the APC had nothing to offer,\u201d Okeke said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. A former spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Delta State, Tony Okeke, has taken a swipe at the leadership of President Bola Tinubu and that of his predecessor Muhammadu Buhari. Recall that Tinubu, of the All Progressives Congress, APC, took over from Buhari, his party member, in May 2023. 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