The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the
President Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC) administration as
a perfect example of arrogance in failure.
PDP added that the APC situation was caused by the arrogant
mismanagement of President Buhari.
President Buhari in a statement by his Senior Special
Assistant (Media and Publicity) Garba Shehu on Saturday asked APC members to
“look at the once-powerful, the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
now enfeebled and adrift and learn lessons in disunity, mismanagement and
corruption”.
In his reaction, PDP National Publicity Secretary, Hon. Debo
Ologunagba in a statement on Sunday said, “President Buhari presides over the
most rudderless, corrupt, disunited, disorganized, arrogant political party and
government in the history of our country; a fact that is already established by
Nigerians across the board.”
The major opposition party also described the Buhari
administration as a certified failure that has “brought unprecedented economic
hardship, chaos, escalated insecurity, a state of anomie and hopelessness in
our country in the last six years.”
It noted that “If Mr President were present as President and
party leader, he should have known that the party that is enfeebled and adrift,
plagued by disunity, mismanagement and corruption”.
He said the arrogance of power and self-aggrandizement which
President Buhari alluded to, is not PDP but the mismanaged and mutating
crisis-ridden APC.
According to the party, President Buhari’s arrogance of
power led to his refusal to timely appoint an economic team or listen to wise
counsel on the economy and security.
“This is why he completely mismanaged our national affairs
and turned our nation into the poverty capital of the world and the third
country with the highest level of terrorism according to the World Terrorism
Index,” it added.
PDP noted that “such arrogance of power is manifesting in
President Buhari and APC’s refusal to accept failure for the near-collapse of
our economy from the $550 billion economy (largest in Africa and 26th globally)
handed over to them in 2015 by the PDP; the fall of the naira from about N197
to a dollar to almost N600 today and the hike in petrol price from N87 per
litre in 2015 to between N300 andN400 per litre today”.
It also alleged that arrogance of power informed the
Buhari-led APC administration to import contaminated fuel, induce agonizing
fuel scarcity on citizens and yet had “the effrontery to tell Nigerians that
heaven will not fall over the fuel situation”.
The statement further read ” the arrogance and impunity of
the APC administration also accounted for its refusal to prosecute APC leaders
indicted for corruption; the barefaced denial that no one was killed in the
EndSARS protest despite national and international evidence of the bloody
massacre of our youths at the Lekki Tollgate as well as the failure to account
for the billions of naira Covid-19 Funds stolen by APC leaders.
“This is in addition to the recent arrogant, corrupt and
criminal removal of electricity subsidy without reference to Nigerians among
other thoughtless and inhumane actions of the APC government”.
“Moreover, it is ludicrous that Mr President who confirmed
that the APC as a party of irreconcilable political warlords, is bedevilled by
the infighting we are seeing instead of the expected robust debate on the
issues that matter, is looking elsewhere for a lesson in disunity,
mismanagement and corruption”.
“Mr President has so arrogantly mismanaged the APC that it
is now plagued by two illegal national chairmen, multiple structures in States;
enfeebled to the extent that it cannot conduct a valid National Convention or
produce legitimate candidates for elections, with its activities no longer
recognized by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)”.
PDP urged President Buhari to assist his party to wind up as
Nigerians are now rallying on its platform to rescue and rebuild the nation
from the arrogance and misrule of the APC government.
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