APC Spokesmen Charged To Embark On Massive Publicity Of Tinubu’s Achievements
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ABUJA- Presidency has charged the publicity secretaries of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to embarked on massive publicity of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s achievements in the past two years.
The Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Mr. Bayo Onanuga, gave this charge on Friday at the one-day capacity building seminar with the theme, “Communicating Renewed Hope” seminar for Zonal and State Publicity Secretaries of the party in Abuja.
Onanuga stated that the administration of President Tinubu has recorded massive and bold achievements in all sectors and urged party spokesmen to educate Nigerians on governments policies and achievements in the last two years.
He said: “We need to leverage more, especially at the grassroots and to share to our people what this government is doing to improve the lots of Nigerians. Our Renewed Hope Agenda is not just a slogan, it is real and becoming a reality.
“Under the present government, the economy is picking up and a lot of confidence had been built on the administration.”
Onanuga pointed out that the Tinubu-led administration was working round the clock to boost the economy and to make life better for Nigerians.
He added that the efforts of Mr. President is attracting investors to invest in all sectors of the economy
He listed Tinubu’s achievements to include agriculture, solid mineral, and other sectors, even though the present government inherited a dead economy, which is being resuscitated.
Also speaking at the event, the National Secretary of APC, Senator Ajibola Bashiru, noted how information were manipulated to discredit Tinubu’s administration.
He said: “before the 2023 election, we have seen the weaponisation of falsehood as an instrument of politics in Nigeria. People will go and pick images from Somalia, images from Chad, images from where there is war, and put an address to it in Nigeria in order to create misinformation.
“We also have a situation where people who have had the opportunity of governing the sub-national, and without any achievement beyond establishment of beer factory will come and be telling us what happened in China, in Malaysia, when at their backyard, their community is ravaged with floods, and they did not put a single school building for eight years of administration.”
He said that the sole aim of those behind this development was to misinform Nigerians of the achievements of the present administration.
He has, however, counseled the party spokesmen to come up with clear and concise information to nulify the false information being peddled by the opposition.
Bashiru said: “We must also focus our communication on what matters. What have we done as a government in the area of economy? Because that’s one of the areas where they tell a lot of lies. Today, we have a lot of facts and figures to show that our economy is doing very well and we are getting accolades from people who ought to know.
“It is strange in Nigeria that if IMF and World Bank gave knock to Nigeria, they would celebrate it. But when they give kudos to us, they will ignore that. So we, as a government, we must also go to the rooftop to shout what IMF and World Bank is talking about Nigeria… and what all other agencies are talking about Nigeria.
“Then we must also show that contrary to the doom based scenario of people who thought Naira would climb to 2,000 and beyond 2,000. Naira has become one of the best performing currencies in Nigeria.
“Today, you can use your Naira card to draw money on the streets of London and the streets of New York, and you can use your Naira card to make a transaction on POS. I was asking somebody at the Apple Store about an iTunes gift card, and he said you can now use Naira to be able to do that transaction.”
The Acting National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Ali Dalori and the APC National Publicity Secretary, Mr Felix Morka also charged the party’s spokesmen to go forth and preach the Renewed Hope Agenda with renewed energy and to continue educating Nigerians on the government’s achievements and the impact on the people.
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