The All Progressives Congress (APC) has praised President Muhammadu Buhari for his achievements within his first 30 days in office.

The APC rated Buhari high in contradiction with the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) scathing review of the President’s 30 days in office.

 The list of achievements was provided by APC National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed, during a press conference in Lagos on Tuesday.

 Mohammed said: “We understand that they repose so much confidence in the party and the government to act quickly to stamp out insecurity, tackle corruption, revive the moribund economy, provide jobs and generally restore hope.

“Justifiably, the expectations are high and urgent, and the Buhari administration has started addressing them, despite the enormous challenges that it faces, including an empty treasury and an economy that has virtually collapsed.

“What the country has been accustomed to is transition from one government to another under the same ruling party, not from the ruling party to the opposition as we have now. The implication is that this is a new learning curve, with its attendant hiccups.”

In listing Buhari’s accomplishments in the last one month, Mohammed said that the President had put strategies in place to tackle insecurity and further strengthen the fight against terrorists in the oil-rich nation’s north-east.

Mohammed said further, “This is one area in which the Buhari Administration has hit the ground running. The President had hardly been sworn into office than he embarked on a shuttle diplomacy to rally Nigeria’s neighbours to act as a common front against the terror group Boko Haram.

“The President travelled to Chad and Niger, and then hosted a summit of the Lake Chad Basin Commission that comprised Cameroon, Chad and Niger, with Benin also invited. The result is the decision to deploy the Multi National Joint Task Force (MNJTF), with headquarters in N’Djamena, Chad, on July 30th to pep up the fight against Boko Haram! This is the same force that the past administration could not get off the ground in six years!

“That’s what we meant when we said what the Jonathan Administration could not do in six years, the Buhari Administration has done in three weeks, not minding that some mischievous elements decided to quote us out of context.

“Thanks to the painstaking efforts of President Buhari, Nigerians now know that out of N8.1 trillion generated by the NNPC in three years, N3.8 trillion was not remitted to the Federation Account. Nigerians now know that the cash in the Excess Crude Account has been depleted by 2 billion dollars without explanation.

“Leaders who once shunned Nigeria have been inviting, in droves, President Buhari to visit their countries. The latest is US President Barack Obama, who will play host to our President at the White House on July 20.”

The National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Olisa Metuh had issued a statement on Sunday, June 28, criticising Buhari and urging Nigerians to pray for the President.