The Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) on Sunday said the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration has no
“rectitude to preside over the nation’s Independence Anniversary as its
insensitivity, impunity and oppressive proclivities are reminiscent of colonial
rule.”
PDP insisted that instead of
celebrating this year’s independence anniversary, “Nigerians are mourning under
President Buhari as his administration has, in the last three years, turned our
nation into an impoverished colony where apparatus of state power has become
instrument of oppression against the people.”
A statement by PDP’s
spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan said, “The Buhari administration came into
power on the premise of fake promises, lies and propaganda, which it has to
sustain by using falsehood, intimidation and foisting of siege mentality on the
citizenry.
“Under the Buhari-led All
Progressives Congress (APC) regime, our nation’s constitution has become
technically suspended. Governance has reverted to oppression. Our democratic institutions,
particularly the National Assembly and the Judiciary, have come under siege;
there is total disregard for justice and constitutionally guaranteed personal
freedom. There is fear everywhere!
“Today, the world is particularly
alarmed by the documented cases of human rights violations, executive
high-handedness, arbitrary and extra-judicial executions, violence and
bloodletting, unlawful arrests and detentions, torture, reported
disappearances, restriction of free speech and press freedom, disobedience to
court judgment and rigging of elections among others, as detailed in the
reports by the United States Department of States, Amnesty International (AI)
and Transparency International (TI).
“Due to the incompetence of the
President Buhari’s administration leading to its inability to design a
clear-cut economic policy direction, our once robust economy has been plunged
into recession; hunger, starvation and strange diseases have so ravaged our
nation that compatriots now consider slavery and suicide mission as option for
survival.
“The Buhari administration have
completely demarketed our nation; industries are collapsing in their numbers;
local and Foreign Direct Investments have shrunken with over 30 million job
losses in three years. Our naira has fallen from N165/1USD in 2015 to N360 to
1USD; cost of fuel has been hiked from N87 per liter to N145. Prices of staple
food and essential commodities have soared beyond the reach of Nigerians and
there is no hope in sight under the APC.
“Instead of building on the gains
bequeathed by the PDP and properly harnessing our resources for economic
growth, the Buhari administration resorted to borrowing and returned our
beloved country to a debtor nation with over N22.4 trillion ($73.21 billion)
debt burden.
“The war against corruption is
nothing but a witch-hunt against opposition members and perceived opponents of
the Buhari administration, while members of the Presidency cabal, who have been
indicted for frittering away over N10 trillion from our national coffers, enjoy
Presidential cover.”
The oposition party, therefore
“holds that the Buhari-led administration lacks the rectitude to preside over
our Independence Anniversary. Moreover, Nigerians are aware that its address
will be full of fake achievement indices and false promises.
“If anything, this administration
now bears the stamp of deceit, incompetence and failure, for which Nigerians
have resolved to vote it out in the 2019 general elections.
“We however urges Nigerians not
to despair but continue to support one another and remain steadfast on the
platform of the repositioned PDP to return our nation to the path of good
governance, come 2019.”
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