Stop Celebrating Mediocrity, Facebook Fans Tell PDP

The ruling party, Peoples Democratic Party has come under criticism for scoring the Federal Government high on the state of the nation’s roads.

Newsmen who visited the Facebook page of the PDP yesterday observed that the ruling party posted the picture of a well lit section of Kubwa Highway in the Federal Capital Territory on its wall, while living in a fools’ paradise about the motorability of other Nigerian roads.
The caption on the photograph read, “Can you guess?  Don’t go too far. This is Kubwa Highway in the FCT, once a single lane, notorious for its traffic gridlock. Who said PDP no dey work?”
However, the self-admiration of the party has attracted angry reactions, as some Nigerians faulted its claims. The PDP Facebook followers who disagreed with the claim said the party should be ashamed for rolling out the drums over a single road, out of the many other roads in the country which needed attention.
In the comments, Nigerians lamented that many federal roads were dotted with potholes, many of which, they said, had started graduating into craters.
A particular Facebook fan of the party, King Babalola, posted that PDP should stop deceiving its followers on social media.

“The Peoples Democratic Party is really doing well. Just as you put the Lagos/Ibadan Expressway in good shape in 14 years? Papa Deceiving Pikin political party.
“Why should the Federal Government, which the PDP produced, be jubilating over the repair of what is not up to one per cent of the roads in Nigeria in 14 years? The PDP should be reminded that I lost my mother and sister to poor medical service being rendered to the citizenry.”
Another fan of the party, Sani Ibrahim, accused PDP of being out of touch with the reality in various parts of the country and urged it to bury its head in shame for putting such information on the social media space.
“So, you (PDP) are proud to display a single road in one area council in Abuja, out of all the 774 local government areas in the country? Aren’t you ashamed? Much is expected of the Federal Government, which has a good concentration of our economic potential.”
Some Nigerians who appeared embittered with PDP’s claim argued that the it had failed the citizenry, not only in terms of provision of motorable roads but also in terms of dearth of critical infrastructure necessary for national development.