PDP Chides Buhari For Insulting Obasanjo

By GWG Staff

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has cautioned President Muhammadu Buhari to listen to advice from eminent Nigerians, who the party said, are advising him against allowing the nation to tumble from the cliff under his watch.

The PDP stated that the Buhari Presidency is worsening the sorry state in which it has plunged the nation by choosing to haul insults on Nigerians including former Presidents like Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and other well-meaning leaders, who the PDP claimed are patriotically calling on his administration to end what it described as its divisive, suppressive and insensitive style of leadership.

“From its reactions to patriotic counsel, it is clear that the Buhari Presidency has become bereft of the fundamentals of governance as well as overwhelmed by its own failures and burden of guilt for the disunity, bloodletting and anguish that have enveloped our nation in the last five years,” the PDP said in a statement issued by its spokesman, Kola Ologbondinyan.

The statement was in reaction to the presidency’s rebuttal of the earlier call from President Obasanjo.

“It is incontrovertible that the Buhari administration is leading Nigeria into a failed state, where citizens are not guaranteed of their safety; cannot afford the basic necessities of life and where governance has been crippled by incompetence, unbridled nepotism, promotion of injustice, executive high handedness, abuse of human right, disobedience to court orders, brazen violation of constitutional provisions, acute corruption and violent muscling of elections.

“While President Buhari recedes in the comfort and safety of the Presidential villa and reneged in his promise to lead from the front, Nigeria is being pushed to the fringes by marauders who are pillaging our citizens in various parts of our country, including Mr. President’s home state of Katsina.

“Furthermore, it smacks of shamelessness for the Buhari administration to be talking about corruption in PDP’s subsidy regime, when it has been caught neck-deep in unprecedented oil corruption that had ruined our economy, turned our nation into the poverty capital of the world and put our citizens in a dire strait.

“Nigerians know it as a fact that before he was elected President, General Buhari, as he was then known; a former minister of Petroleum Resources, had publicly told Nigerians that subsidy was a fraud and that it never existed.

“Five years down the line, trillions of naira have been discovered to have been stolen under the subsidy regime of an administration over which he presides.

“Today, life has become traumatizing for Nigerians as resources from the sale of crude oil have either been wasted or stolen by officials of the Buhari administration.

“Furthermore, It is undebatable that the biggest achievement of constitutional amendment in modern administration of our country is the entrenchment of a credible electoral process, which enabled President Buhari to win election in 2015 from an opposition standpoint. “Unfortunately, this noble achievement is being washed away in five years under the watch of President Buhari.”

“It therefore amounts to pretending to sanctimony for President Buhari to be preaching on term limit, whereas, his administration has done everything possible, broken all known democratic norms and rules to debase credibility in our elections.

“Our party implores President Buhari to pause, think of Nigeria and its people and heed wise counsel to save our nation from an imminent collapse, which this idling administration has foisted on all our people.”

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