The Peoples Democratic Party,
PDP, has told President Muhammadu Buhari not to allow himself to be deceived by
praise singers at the 10th Colloquium of Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
According to the main opposition
party, the resort to heavy security during Buhari’s visit to Lagos was a loud
testimony of the sinking image of the President and that of the State chapter
of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
The PDP called out Buhari for
failing to initiate or execute any project in the state since his assumption of
office in 2015.
Kola Ologbondiyan, the National
Publicity Secretary of the PDP in a statement on Friday, told Buhari to draw a
lesson from the alleged public resentment that trailed his visit.
The statement noted that,
“Usually, citizens throng out, with joy, in open streets, to receive their
leaders, but the opposite was the case in Lagos when the APC completely locked
down the city and deployed heavy security to restrain the people, having
realized the citizens’ overwhelming indignation against the President.
“It was obvious that President
Buhari’s handlers were mortally afraid of his being embarrassed by Lagosians,
who are direct victims of the noxious policies of the Buhari Presidency,
including the discredited monetary, foreign exchange and import restriction
policies, which had led to the collapse of private businesses; multiple taxes
and general government ineptitude, nepotism and dictatorial tendencies in the
last three years under President Buhari.
“The handlers had to lockdown the
city, regardless of the huge economic loss and inconvenience to citizens and
holed their principal into the safety of the colloquium hall where he was
surrounded by praise singers, away from the people.
“Lagosians are aware that Mr.
President suddenly remembered the state just because elections are around the
corner.
“They have not forgotten that
this was the same leader who, in 1984, canceled the Lagos metro rail project
only to come back 34 years after, without any form of remorse, to commission a
regular bus stop built by the state government.
“It is most tragic that while the
President of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo, who hosted President Buhari early this
month, was commissioning factories in all districts of his country to mark his
one year in office, our President could only offer Lagos, with its over 22
million population, the commissioning of a bus stop, which unfortunately, he
did not even build
“If President Buhari had not
sabotaged the people of Lagos by aborting the rail project in 1984, the state
would have become one of the most advanced cities in the world by now.
“Instead of bringing blessing to
Lagos, President Buhari’s visit brought more suffering, economic loss and
pains, as the lockdown cost the state a major part of its $250 million daily
Gross Domestic Product, GDP.”
“It is also instructive to inform
that contrary to impression of achievements, the Buhari-led federal government
has no input whatsoever in both the Eko Atlantis City and the $1.5 billion Lagos
Deep Water Port, which were respectively toured and flagged off by the
President during his visit.
“These projects are running on
public, private partnership initiated by the Lagos state government, which
leveraged on the enabling business environment created by the PDP
administration,” it added.
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