The All Progressives Congress (APC) has expressed sadness over the state of the nation, which it says has been on auto pilot for the past several weeks, "as the outgoing administration has shown neither the capacity nor the willingness to resolve any of the crises it has contrived and foisted on the nation."

President Goodluck Jonathan is handing over a nation in deep crisis, even as his administration continues to contrive more crises without making any effort to solve any of them, the party said in a statement issued in Abuja yesterday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.

APC, however, appealed to Nigerians not to lose hope, despite the daunting challenges they are currently facing in this atmosphere of contrived chaos, saying help is on the way.

The party said: “In a few days’ time, President Jonathan will hand over to President-elect Muhammadu Buhari. Never in the history of our country has any government handed over to another a more distressed country: No electricity, no fuel, workers are on strike, billions are owed to state and federal workers, 60 billion dollars are owed in national debt and the economy is virtually grounded.

“Today, Nigerians are roaming the streets, jerry cans in hand, searching for everything from kerosene to fuel to diesel to power their homes, keep their vehicles on the road and keep their businesses going. They are paying as much as 300 Naira per litre for fuel, if at all they can get it. Yet their government is not saying a word about the situation.”

Commenting on the Federal Government’s position on the current chaos all over the country, the party said: “The PDP people are not interested in how to end the fuel scarcity that has paralysed the socio-economic lives of Nigerians. They are not interested in how to raise electricity production from its unprecedentedly-low level of 1,327 megawatts. They are not even doing anything to end the strike by blue and white collar oil workers, or to stop the impending one.”

“President Jonathan handing over nation in deep crisis, but Nigerians should not lose hope,” the party added.

•Photo shows Lai Mohammed.