The peoples Democratic Party (PDP) views with disappointment the apparent snub by the President-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari of the handover programme lined up by the Federal Government to transmit power to him by Friday, May 29, 2015. The PDP said such behavior was a measure of lack of democratic discipline.
PDP National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh in a statement on Sunday said 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.
The PDP said it was disgraceful that due to poor coordination and crass ineptitude in the handling of issues, the President-elect was left almost stranded while waiting for about thirty minutes before he was received by the British leader and wondered if such is a foretaste of the muddling to be experienced under the All Progressives Congress (APC)’s administration.
“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.
Signed:
Olisa Metuh
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Whoever wrote this article must be suffering from amnesia (loss of memory). Our President ELECT waited 30 minutes to see the British prime minister who he eventually saw and accorded him respect. Our PRESIDENT (GEJ) was thrown into the crowd and rubbished during Mandela's burial and never came close to the podium. Which treatment is worse?
ReplyDeleteKeep wagging your mouth Olisah
ReplyDeleteBuhari did not want to be ushered in by this brood of thieves and looters called PDP. PDP, what exactly do you guys not understand?
ReplyDeleteDo we have a president that wants to handover?
ReplyDeleteMr Olisa metuh, The 7 point agenda promised by Jonathan to fix power, petroleum sector, employment since 4 years, what did he achieve? nothing. why not keep dirty mouth shut if you have nothing to say.
ReplyDeleteOlisa, if I curse you ehn, Nigerians are groaning under fuel scarcity, you are here talking trash. You a a big fool.
ReplyDeleteCould someone tell these PDP people to just go quietly?. They should not abuse Nigerians because we knew who Buhari was and is before preferring him over and above the PDP. What the PDP secretary is effectively saying is that Nigerians are fools to have elected someone without democratic Credentials. Please Olisah, the period for campaign is over. Just tuck your tail in between your legs and disappear quietly.
ReplyDeleteI weep when I saw picture of buhari waiting hopelessly in a door of a white man like a servant waiting for his master. What a shame,God forbid bad thing.Please what is happening to africans people for christ seek?Why nigeria fools as rulers keep making mocking of themselves and reduces to nothing. Could this be called madness or a curse? Why! why!!why!!!.
ReplyDeleteYou have the absolute right to weepweeo and continue weeping, instead of you to face reality you are chasing shadow. Abeg continue weeping oh
DeleteSomething must be wrong with you to insinuate that, Buhari and APC are the brains behind the mess this government has led us to. There is acute shortage of fuel and electricity in the land after 16yrs of PDP, yet you want us to believe it is the APC, the same way your party was telling us that, the opposition was behind the insurgency in the land, only to later tell us that, it underrated Boko Haram. You are in power, yet you blame opposition for every bit of your failure, yet you want to take glory for hypothetical economic growth. Wait till you handover, if Buhari can not jump over these economic landmines your govt is setting everywhere, then you can talk, else you will only be pointing at your failures. How on earth can Buhari stabilize power supply and give us fuel even before his inauguration? Are we under Jonathan today or under Buhari? Atondu Akaan
ReplyDeleteYou have all said the truth except for that PDP towing the line of Olisa and the People Destruction Party.
ReplyDeleteGod will surely fight put us ahead of them.
emm... no comment... i just interest to read it... :D sorry
ReplyDeleteHahahahaha he has no business in UK as far as am concerned so we dnt ve resting place in Niaja? Pls he shld go and prepare for the task ahead, enough of talk it's time for action.
ReplyDeleteOlisa or Orisa, you lack moral and senses of responsible leader. Tell Nigerians what PDP offered us except mismanagement and looting.
ReplyDeleteBurry your head shame for the troubles PDP brings to Nigeria with people like you
Thunder will massacre you Olisah and your family. Very ugly idiots. Your looters party is dead and waiting for burial. I think PDP said they will rule Nigeria for 60yrs. Hahahaha bunch of failures. Your boss Jonathan go soon end up in jail, and all of una eyes go clear.
ReplyDeleteWhy not publish those who did not abused Metu is he not saying the truth or Apc did promise again to make N1 to $1 pay 5000 to those who have no job, provide meal to schools if what Metu said are true all your abuses shall return to you all in hundred fold.
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