Former Governor of the old Kaduna
State, and National Chairman of the Peoples Redemption Party PRP, Alhaji
Abdulkadir Balarabe Musa on Monday took a swipe on President Muhammadu Buhari.
The former Governor also called
out the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, saying that they rode to power
on false and empty promises.
Musa spoke at the 54th meeting of
the National Executive Committee, NEC, of PRP, where he noted that none of the
promises made by Buhari and APC before coming to power in 2015 had been
fulfilled.
He said, “As you are all aware,
our nation today remains in a very sorry state despite all the lofty promises
and flowery speeches made by the ruling government of the All Progressive
Congress (APC) at the inception of the Administration in 2015.
“The economy remains comatose,
and in some sectors, particularly in industry and commerce, it is even getting
worse.
“Monetary and fiscal management
has continued to lack coherence and consistency, or even predictability and
strategic planning.
“Unemployment, particularly
amongst the youth, who constitute the bulk of our population, has assumed
critical proportions and is now, for all practical purposes, a national
emergency.
“Yet, this APC Administration,
which rode to power on the back of false promises to this generation of hapless
young men and women, seems to have no answers to this ticking time bomb beyond
slogans such as N-Power.
“In fact, instead of creating
jobs, the Administration is busy cutting existing ones in the name of
‘rightsizing’ or ‘downsizing’.
“This government, both at the
centre and in the States that it controls, has proved that it has little or
nothing else to provide Nigerians other than further mass impoverishment,
frustration and hardships.
“If we turn to the security
front, the same sad picture confronts us. Perhaps, President Muhammadu Buhari’s
greatest appeal for many in 2015 was the belief that he was capable of dealing
a death blow to the insurgency, particularly as manifested by Boko Haram.
“In these almost three years that
the APC has been in power, the reality has been otherwise.
“Yes, the Boko Haram camps in the
Sambisa forest may have been wiped out, but the security menace that the group
poses continues to manifest, with suicide bombs exploding almost on a weekly
basis, particularly in the North Eastern parts of the country.
“But apart from the Boko Haram
insurgency, others have emerged in different parts of the country.
“Recently, the Indigenous People
of Biafra (IPOB) unleashed mayhem in the South East. Similarly, the militants
in the Niger Delta are yet to sheath their swords.
“And even more ominous is the
threat to public safety and the security of lives and property posed by the marauding
gangs of cattle rustlers, killer herdsmen and armed kidnappers.
“We ask, where is the security
promised Nigerians by this APC administration?.
“In so far as the political
environment is concerned, again the story is a sad one. Lacking any internal
cohesion within itself, the APC administration has only spawned and promoted
institutional political decay in the country.
“In the name of an
anti-corruption campaign, the government has been consistently assaulting due
process and the rule of law.
“Court orders are flagrantly
disobeyed by the very institutions that should enforce them.
“Basic democratic rights are
being cynically abused. While talking glibly about fighting corruption, the
government shamelessly looks askance where corruption is exposed within its own
very ranks, closets and cocoons.”
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