PDP To Buhari: We Can’t “Continue” With Bad Governance

…Says APC’s statement confirms Mr President has been lethargic

BY EVELYN DADU, ABUJA – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Friday declared that the position of the All Progressives Congress (APC), that President Muhammadu Buhari has been “re-energized” after his medical treatment, is a confirmation that the President had been incapable and lethargic, leading to the inefficiency, disorganization and general misrule that have bedeviled his administration.

While welcoming President Buhari from his medical tourism in the United Kingdom, the PDP however said that it rejects his declaration that Nigerians should expect the “continuity” of his misrule.

The PDP pointedly said that it expects the “re-energized” President Buhari as the Commander-In-Chief to immediately proceed to Zamfara, Borno, Kaduna, Adamawa and other states where terrorists have practically taken over communities on account of the failures of his administration.

It also challenged President Buhari to henceforth take responsibility and end his excuses of not always being aware of issues in the country.

The party said that while Nigerians are at a loss on the import of President Buhari’s declaration upon his return that what they should expect is “continuity”, it remnded President Buhari that he was elected for a last term of four years which will end on May 29, 2023.

The party said that it holds PDP holds that whatever purpose his frame of mind on “continuity” was made to serve, it must not detach from the finality of his leaving office in on May 29, 2023.

The PDP in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, said that moreover, Nigerians vehemently reject any idea of “continuity” that pertains to failed economy, hunger and starvation, banditry, killings, terrorism, kidnapping, abuse of human rights, treasury looting, mindless borrowing and other vices that have characterized the APC administration under the watch of President Buhari.

The PD statement further states; “This is especially as the comment by the APC had already confirmed that our nation has indeed been on auto-pilot leading to shambolic state of affairs in the nation, escalation of violence and insecurity, wrecking of our national economy, policy inconsistency, entrenchment of corruption and impunity, with no hope in sight.

“While the PDP recognizes the humanity of all, our party advises that those at the helm of affairs must be honest enough not to take up assignments that are beyond their capacity.

“Now that Mr. President is “re-energized,” his handlers have no further excuses on his failure to lead from the front as he promised, in the fight against terrorists and insurgents, whose activities escalated under his watch”.

The party further said; “Mr. President should also immediately address the nation on how he intends to pay back the huge foreign loans his administration had collected in the last six years, for which the future of our nation has been mortgaged.

“The “re-energized” President is also expected to forcefully commence the recovery of over N15 trillion reportedly stolen by APC leaders from government agencies including the NNPC, NEMA, EFCC, NDDC among others,” the PDP states.