Press Statement
…Berates Buhari’s Presidency For Abandoning Governance
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the vituperation by the
Presidency in desperate defence of the fizzling All Progressives
Congress (APC), is a further confirmation that the APC has become
comatose.
The Presidency response to the PDP further shows that President
Muhammadu Buhari has abandoned governance to engage in threnody for his
dysfunctional APC.
Our party also notes that a reading of the reaction from the Presidency
further strengthens the fact that the Buhari’s administration has become
uncoordinated and ill equipped for governance.
The statement also portrays a Presidency lacking in confidence that its
party, the APC, can still perform its roles.
The Buhari Presidency ought to have known that it is too late in the day
for concealments or gagging of Nigerians as its failures, incompetence
and lack of confidence in itself and the APC are manifest at all turns.
Moreover, the Presidency should know that the PDP, as a party that
resonates with Nigerians and on which our democracy and national
cohesion is anchored, has a solemn duty to hold President Buhari and his
APC accountable for their misrule which has brought untold poverty,
hunger, violence, bloodletting and division in the land.
The PDP has the responsibility to hold President Buhari and the APC
accountable for the promises they made to Nigerians in 2015, which
remain unfulfilled as they were only used by the APC as carrots to grab
power and sit in oppression over our people.
Now that the Presidency has abandoned governance to speak for the dying
APC, we charge it to place President Buhari on the seat to, in addition
to the failures of his administration, also take responsibility for the
woes of the APC.
In doing this, the PDP charges Mr. President to explain how he and his
party wrecked our economy from one of the fastest growing in the world
to a shameful world poverty capital in a space of four years and brought
so much hopelessness that compatriots now resort to suicide,
infanticide, human trafficking and slavery mission abroad for survival.
The answer is incompetence and dishonesty!
The Buhari Presidency and APC should explain why they have been pursuing
polices that threaten the unity, stability and national cohesion of our
dear nation; policies and body language that promote division, violence,
abuse of human rights, violation of rule of law, attack on tenets and
institutions of democracy. The answer is intolerance, power drunkenness
and narrow-mindedness!
The Buhari Presidency and the APC should explain why they relish in
inflicting hardship, stimulating high costs and unemployment in the land
through exclusionism, harsh taxes and increased tariffs, while failing
to recover the over N15 trillion stolen by APC leaders, including the N9
trillion exposed by the leaked NNPC memo, funds which are meant for the
welfare of Nigerians. The answer is insensitivity, selfishness and
ingrained corruption in the APC and the Buhari administration
The fact remains that the atrocities of the APC stare it in the face and
Nigerians, including President Buhari, know that the APC is not in the
card for 2023.
Signed:
Kola Ologbondiyan
National Publicity Secretary
