The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP yesterday took a swipe at the President- elect, Muhammadu Buhari for snubbing the handover programme put in place by the Federal Government to transmit power to him by Friday, May 29, 2015, describing the action as lack of democratic discipline.
In a statement yesterday by PDP National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, the PDP noted that it was indeed disappointed over the act, adding that the incoming administration must ensure that it delivered on campaign promises to Nigeria and Nigerians.
Metuh said that the President-elect owes Nigerians explanations on why he snubbed the prayer sessions scheduled for Friday and Sunday for Muslims and Christians respectively to usher in four years of his in-coming administration “as well as the embarrassing protocol gaffe and low-down treatment that characterized his visit to British Prime Minister David Cameron last Saturday.
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| Buhari waiting to be received by UK prime minister, David Cameron |
“Nigerians, as citizens of a sovereign nation were thoroughly embarrassed when they saw their President-elect cheapened and kept waiting at the door of 10 Downing Street to see the British Prime Minister due to shoddy arrangements by his handlers.
“Indeed, they are becoming increasingly worried about the frightening unpreparedness of the APC for governance and the huge embarrassments they have been attracting to our nation. We know that the APC has been lying over issues. We also know that the APC and the President-elect have been flip-flopping and reneging on their campaign promises; but to embarrass the nation by embarking on such a sensitive visit without adequate preparations is shameful and completely unacceptable.
“We share the fear of well-meaning Nigerians on how a party which cannot adequately handle a simple task of organizing a diplomatic outing will effectively administer a country as complex as Nigeria.
“The APC has continued to give signals that it lacks capacity to face the challenges of governance. Such has been evidenced in the uneasiness of the President-elect who in apparent loss of confidence in himself has started reneging on his promises of quick fixes while confessing in a meeting with APC governors-elect on May 5, 2015 that he has ‘started nervously to explain to people that Rome was not built in a day.
“Instead of settling down for governance and working out how to fulfill its promises of making the naira the same in value with the dollar, paying N5, 000, 000 monthly to 25 million poor Nigerians, providing electricity on 24/7 basis, providing free meals for school children and allowances for discharged but unemployed youth corps members among others, the APC is busy inventing excuses for failure and blaming everyone else but themselves. We hope they will not blame the PDP for their Saturday’s embarrassing outing at 10 Downing Street.
“Furthermore, we find it curious and more than a co-incidence that the nation is experiencing an acute shortage of fuel and electricity supply at this point in time, when such has not been the case under the current PDP-led administration. We ask, are there some forces sabotaging the system to create an impression that the APC is inheriting poor infrastructure and complete system breakdown?
“Is this also part of the larger plot to embarrass and defame the PDP-led administration in an attempt to justify APC’s excuses for failure”, the PDP probed.
The party insisted that despite the challenges of insecurity and global economic recession that negatively affected many other nations, its administration had in the last 16 years worked very hard in repositioning critical sectors of the polity and laying strong infrastructure backbone that that any prepared and result oriented in-coming administration can comfortably leverage on.
It therefore asked the APC to get ready “to apply its much-mouthed manifesto or be bold to apologize to Nigerians for presenting false messianic posture and making false promises to them.” Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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Metuh, Olisa Metuh!, why not sort your internal wrangling before delving into what never concerns you? Is Buhari anything other being an ordinary Nigerian!? He is not yet a President!! Will you in your highest dreams ever gone to visit the British PM? Look, look, you and your party are leaving behind so much problems and yet you can't give a reasonable solution to any.
ReplyDeleteOlisa Metu seller, you are just being stupid.
ReplyDeleteFrom all your talk it is just weeping statement.
PDP have just succeeded in killing the economy before your departure.
Instead of you to address the issues the already grounded nations economy, you are busy following Buhari about.
Very soon you will begin to beg from behind the bars for your corrupt and ineptitude of your failed administration. Olisa you are a big fool.
This Mentu guy is mad. Suffering from misplaced priority. Your problems are enormous.
ReplyDeletemetuh why are you creating scene where there is none. what is wrong if buhari waits for british PM. till tomorrow? if you must criticize try to be constructive and don't expose your naivety as a PDP spokes person in public. Buhari don't need that useless respect for now. He is showing the world that he is just an ordinary person ready to learn. Nigerians are suffering. why not help jonathan to think since Nigeria problem has overwhelmed him and stop embarrassing your self. I sorry for you.
ReplyDeleteIf APC fails, Nigerians certainly know that it is PDP and its epileptic government at all levels that are the culprits. They are handing over a failed state. It is strange that Metuh is asking a party that is yet not in government to explain the current embarrassing fuel scarcity under the watchfull eyes of a PDP government. This is typical of an irresponsible party parading an irresponsible government.
ReplyDeleteIf Nigeria as a nation is being embarrassed, it is because PDP has made the country a laughing stock. NO ONE CAN BLAME IT ON GMB AND THE APC, period!!
Metuh a room needs to be reserved for you in d rehab. Is dat wat is facing d nation? That's d kind of election campaign dat killed pdp
ReplyDeleteGents, is Olise Metu, the issue here, let's for once face the reality. I think that the issue of concern is the insult meted to Nigeria. President elect is already a president and should be treated as such. Swearing in is a ceremony which count noting to compare to the vote of the populace. This picture is not glorious nor honourable, beside that he is standing alone, please Nigerians lets us hold our GMB at high esteem.
ReplyDeleteMost APShits are unreasonable and can never see things from positive sides. Break down! Too many lies and deceits during electioneering campaign. Give us the CHANGE you campaigned but not EXCUSES, after all you did your homework before you contested.
ReplyDeleteNigeria has been previously destroyed.
Get wise!
Take a look at the whole Situation of Nigeria as at present and imagine that u're the person PDP want to hand over to, who would u tell to get Wise?
DeletePls think deeply before u talk or write.
Until after May 29th, Buhari is not the president of Nigeria. He is a private citizen. So, he can stand as long as he wants in front of 10 Downing street. He does not need to explain anything to anybody.
ReplyDeletePresident Jonathan and his supporters should really go and hide their faces in the mud. The state of the nation as of today is a demonstration of how wicked and selfish PDP is. They've failed the presidential election and so Nigerians can go to hell. Buhari has started on a humble note and I wish him well. As for Metuh, u are just a shameless pig. U cannot confuse us. Nigerians will not forget how terrible and corrupt Jonathan administration has been.
ReplyDeleteWell I don't blame buhari much,because he's a general and he standing round as part of his duty. as a general.
ReplyDeleteShut you all.Have you people forgot how lair lair mohammed of apc bombarded pdp until they fell of woefully, without knowing that what goes around comes around.Olisa metuh follow them bomber to bomber don't give an inch space.Sai buhari, sai disgraceful.
Are you for real? As in really? Obviously you're a PDP apologist. SMH
DeleteIt is very sad that Olisa Metuh and his PDP friends still do not know that we currently have a PDP government under the Presidency of Goodluck Jonathan. Nigeria does not have a parallel government. The failures of leadership and the maladministration we have seen over many years until now shows the PDP's best for Nigeria.
ReplyDeleteNigerians deserve better and after 29 May 2015, we can then breath fresh air as APC takeover leadership for the better.
Rome was not built in a day...buhari has to be very careful Nigerians are not Fools, he can go back just the way he came up...must buhari tell the whole world that Nigerian president is an illiterate, this is embarrassing for us
ReplyDeleteBuhari is not an illiterate. Do not insult Nigeria military career. Buhari trained as a professional soldier and he was promoted to the rank of Major General before he retired from the army.
DeleteIn case you do not know, Nigeria has a military university called Nigerian Defence Academy in Kaduna (www.nda.edu.ng). Buhari is an alumni of NDA, Kaduna; US Army War College; Defence Services Staff College India. Etc etc.
Therefore, check your facts before writing any politically motivated false statement.
Olisa metuh and his PDP fellows. Their brains are empy enough to park a Boeing, and they have succeeded in transferring this disease to their supporters. With this recent statement by Olisa metuh, it is now clear that the emptiness of his brain is expanding... Meanwhile, Jonathan remains a timid thief.
ReplyDeleteEmpty brain is rather more useful than a gabbage-stuffed-brain.
DeleteNo noise making. APShits should get to work and stop complaining. Nigeria has already been destroyed by Nigerians. Can u swear that you are innocent?
We are faced with the worst situation in the history of this country where the Federal Government has shut down governance prior to the hand over day. I congratulate Nigerian by taken the decision to relieve this administration come May 29th. We are hopeful that things will improve as soon as the new government hit the ground running.
ReplyDeleteOrokus
ReplyDeletePresident Jonathan cannot address pressing issues affecting the masses but he can make vital appointments in the closing days of his administration. Olisa Matur is not seeing that.