The Peoples Democratic Party(PDP), on Thursday, sent a
message to President Muhammadu Buhari through its national chairman, Uche
Secondus.
According the PDP chairman, the country is seating on a time
bomb and disaster could only be avoided if the president act now or vacate his
position.
Uche Secondus made the statement at his press conference,
held in Abuja.
Please read the full text of press conference of Uche
Secondus
“MR. PRESIDENT ACT NOW OR GIVE WAY BEFORE IT BECOMES TOO
LATE”
Preamble.
The facts are indisputable that President Mohammadu
Buhari-led APC Administration has woefully failed the people of Nigeria. This
is a general consensus across this great country. No segment of our nationhood
is in good shape as we speak.
The economy is in a dire state as the country heads toward
insolvency, occasioned by huge unserviceable debts and the crash of oil price.
Nigerians continues to live in fear as security situation
worsens and remains unabated.
Corruption update.
The twin evils of bribery and corruption have continued
reign supreme in the nation’s public and private lives. All over the country,
strategic institutions have been bedeviled by varying degree of corrupt
practices. There are also widespread allegations on several serving public
officers of corrupt enrichments with no actions taken. For a regime that came
into office on the pedestal of revamping the economy, restoring security and
fighting corruption to fail on all scores, it is obvious the bloom is well off
the roses. Reports just released from the state department of the United States
of America confirmed this worrying development that In Nigeria public officials
still engage in corrupt practice with impunity.
Rule of Law and democratic institutions
There are other core issues of our national life that have
similarly deteriorated under this administration. Constitutionalism and due
process of law are being circumvented, compromised and abused. For example,
public officers whom the law demands legislative confirmation are put and kept
in offices against the provisions of the law. There are also rampant deliberate
and scornful disregard of court orders and legislative resolutions.
Furthermore, extra-judicial acts of security agencies have effectively compromised
the fundamental human rights of Nigerians. The several mindless cutting down of
the lives of Nigerians all over the country are sore examples of reference.
Even the little mileage made on the image of the country in the international
community in the years before 2015 has been lost. One could go on and on; the
problems are without end! The cumulative effects of all these, however, is the
weakening of such critical democratic institutions like political parties, the
electoral process, the judiciary and the backbone of our nationhood, the
military.
Unemployment and its social effects.
It is important to point out that the sociological root
causes of the problems facing the nation, particularly the violence and crimes
across the country, are poverty, hunger, illiteracy, and economic and political
deprivations arising from unemployment. Until these fundamentals are resolved,
the country will continue to experience violence and crimes, and in complete
state of insecurity, as no amount of police or military actions can prevent or
even curb the menace. The federal Government must device a concrete means of
seeking lasting solution by working with critical stakeholders particularly
states, local Government areas and communities.
Securing the lives of Nigerians.
Any regime that fails to secure the safety of lives and
property of its citizens has lost all moral and lawful rights to continue in
office. The Buhari regime has utterly failed in this regard. Instead of
providing strong and decisive leadership, the regime is now going about both
destroying the solid foundation upon which the country stands and dislocating a
building pillar of our society – i.e the traditional institution!
Governments insensitive Acts
Last week’s insensitive exclusion of the whole Southeast
Zone and Edo State from the benefits of the whooping $22b loan and the unlawful
deposition and banishment of Emir Mohammadu Sanusi II of Kano at a time when
all hands are needed on deck to rescue our country are good examples of such
destructive tendencies of the APC government displaying their insensitivity to
the plight of Nigerians.
Corona virus, Soot pollution and lackluster Response to
Disaster.
The Coronavirus ravaging the World has thrown up fresh
challenges across the globe for leaders of nations. While we watch and admire
leaders rise to the challenge elsewhere, the reverse is the case in our
country. Nigerians are yet to hear or see their President rise to the emergency
and those officers on duty have not enjoyed the needed political will. ( May be
when it’s cuts up with us God forbid the President in his character would say
he is not aware of the virus)
Also very outstanding is Nigeria government’s response to
disaster as was experienced in weekend’s pipeline explosion in Lagos state ( may
I crave your indulgence for a minute silence for souls of our beloved citizens
who lost their lives)…. May their soul and those of the faithful departed rest
in peace. Amen. Gentlemen of the press, the measure of blood letting in the
country under the watch of this regime is that there is hardly any press
conference we do that we do not observe some time for souls of our beloved
ones. Very unfortunate our value for human lives.
Another disaster waiting to happen is the effect of black
soot in the Niger Delta region with its attendant health hazard to the populace
and no serious response is being given to it.
Our demands
Consequently, at this hour of peril to our country, PDP is
calling upon President Buhari to wake up and give this nation a firm,
purposeful, consultative and all-inclusive leadership. Our party is of firm
conviction that our problems can be successfully resolved if there is a fair
and effective leadership at the top. It is now time to give this leadership or
give way to capable hands.
Conclusion
In conclusion, the point we are trying to underscore here
very loudly is that this country is seating on a time bomb and we must not
allow it to explode.
We in PDP have our genuine fears that this government and
its managers lack the needed capacity to lift us out of the wood because we got
into it abnitio due to their incapacity.
But that notwithstanding the regime should be sensitive to
the plight of the suffering masses of the country by reviewing downwards
various draconian policies like the various tax regimes especially the Value
Added Tax VAT that affects every goods and services.
The government should avoid pouring fuel to an already
burning inferno with their reckless and lawless attitude to human rights issues
which worsens situation and exposes the country to further ridicule.
When you depose a traditional ruler and deprives him and his
family of their fundamental human rights and in less than 24 hours the United
Nation gives him an exalted appointment, it says a lot how you are rated
globally.
Thank you for listening and God bless”
Prince Uche Secondus
National Chairman
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