The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Wednesday, lambasted
President Muhammadu Buhari over what it called attempts to cover the failures of
his administration by new promises to members of the international community.
On Tuesday while receiving new Ambassadors, Buhari listed “9
priority areas” his administration will focus on till 2023.
The party said Buhari can no longer face Nigerians due to
his unfulfilled promises listed a fresh list of agenda to foreign envoys
“already aware of the failures of his government.”
Kola Ologbondiyan, PDP National Publicity Secretary, after
five years in office, the President “is still in campaign mood, reeling out
empty promises, at a time other world leaders are showcasing their
achievements; a development that further confirms that his administration has
nothing to show in the last five years.”
“The world need not be reminded that Mr. President and his
party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), packaged a litany of false promises
with which they swayed Nigerians in 2015, only to renege on assumption of
office.
“President Buhari and the APC had promised to pay N5,000
monthly allowance to indigent Nigerians, provide massive employment, free
houses, monthly allowances to discharged Corps Members, reduction in price of
fuel, revamping of our refineries, bringing the US dollar to the same value as
the naira and other bogus promises which have today, become streams of mirage.
“On assumption of office, President Buhari reduced the
litany of promises to three cardinal undertaking of ending insurgency and
insecurity, fighting corruption by having and improving on the economy. It is
no longer news that President Buhari has failed in all these three undertakings
to Nigerians.
“Five years under Buhari, insecurity has worsened in our
country with bandits, insurgents and kidnappers running over towns and
communities in various states including President Buhari’s home state of
Kastina, while Mr. President, who promised to lead from the front is receding
in the safety and comfort of the Aso Presidential Villa.
“Instead of any improvement, the Buhari administration had
only wrecked our economy and turned our once prosperous nation into the poverty
capital of the world with so much hardship hunger and starvation, escalated
unemployment, high cost of food, reduced life expectancy, high morbidity rate
and collapsed infrastructure to the extent that Nigerians now resort to suicide
and slavery abroad as options.
“Contrary to its promise, the Buhari administration has
increased the price of fuel from N87 in 2015 to the current N148 per liter; the
naira now exchanges as high as N500 to a dollar against N160 margin in 2015;
our refineries have still not received attention.
The opposition said under Buhari, no sector has witnessed
any improvement.
“Imposition of suppressive tariffs and taxes, including an
increased Value Added Tax (VAT) from 5% to 7.5%; huge foreign borrowings that
are siphoned by APC leaders and other anti-people policies have become the
order of the day.”
“Furthermore, under President Buhari, corruption has
worsened as even detailed in the reports by various reputable international
organizations such as the Transparency International (TI), with government
providing cover for corrupt officials and their agents.”
The statement said the stench of corruption oozing out from
the various investigations in the National Assembly and the indicting of the
head of the nation’s anti-corruption agency (Ibrahim Magu) under Buhari expose
the decadence in the administration.
PDD added that condemned the presidency for trying to
“grandstand before foreign envoys and pull out another merry-go-round box of
fake promises when Nigerians already know that it has no intentions of
fulfilling such, nearly two years into Mr. President’s second and final term of
four years.”
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