The Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) on Tuesday described the Democracy Day address by President Muhammadu
Buhari as “uninspiring, hollow, full of self-praise and false performance
claims”.
PDP insisted that Buhari’s speech
failed to address “issues agitating the minds of Nigerians,” adding that the
address was full of false claims.
In a statement by its
spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan, PDP stressed that Buhari’s 2018 Democracy Day
address to Nigerians was the “worst” since he took office in 2015.”
The party claimed that the
address was “garnished with a list of phantom projects and executive
regurgitations, inherently designed by his handlers to sway Nigerians and
divert attention from the many failures of this administration.”
PDP stressed that this year’s
Democracy Day speech will be the last to be delivered by Buhari to Nigerians.
The statement reads, “The few
Nigerians who bordered to listen to the address were miffed that, in the most
insensitive manner, Mr. President failed to show the littlest empathy to
millions of citizens groaning under the worst form
of poverty, starvation and
economic hardship occasioned by his misrule.
“President Buhari’s aloofness to
the plight of Nigerians is manifest in all the lines of the speech.
“In fact, no line in the supposed
Democracy Day Address had any inclination towards justice for victims of abuse
of human rights, reported executive high-handedness, illegal arrests and
detentions, extra-judicial executions as well as victims of killings and daily
bloodletting in Benue, Taraba, Zamfara, Kaduna,Plateau, Borno, Kogi, Yobe and
other parts of the country, by insurgents and marauders.
“Mr. President, on Democracy Day,
had no words of assurance on the unrelenting violation of our constitution;
assault on the National Assembly and erosion of personal freedom of citizens.
“The President said nothing on
the humonguous corruption going on under his administration, where APC leaders
and cabal at the Presidency have stolen over N10 trillion, mainly from a sector
under his direct supervision.
“PDP also notes the fact that the
President had no committing words towards the conduct of free, fair and
credible 2019 general elections, apparently overwhelmed by the avalanche of his
public rejection ahead of the polls.
“Incredibly, Mr. President’s
handlers chose to subject him to a fantasy trip, making false performance
claims with phantom projects, muddling up economic statistics and ended up
worsening his already diminished public
perception.
“This is exactly why the PDP had
earlier advised President Buhari not to border to address Nigerians on
Democracy Day.
“The PDP notes that Nigerians
have reached a consensus that the 2018 Democracy Day celebration is the last
for the Buhari Presidency and the APC. Our citizens have endured under the
misrule of the APC, keeping their hopes in the 2019 elections to get back our
democracy on the platform of the repositioned PDP.
“In solidarity with Nigerians, the National
Working Committee of the PDP has already held a meeting where it reviewed the
circumstances and will formally address Nigerians on the issues of misrule of
our nation in the last three years.”
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