PDP To Buhari: Mr. President You Are Already A Failure

Posted by African Examiner Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria Saturday, August 21st, 2021

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has told President Muhammadu Buhari that he is already a failure in governance and will leave a failure at end of his second tenure.

PDP made this pronouncement while responding to the recent statement by President Buhari that he will not leave office as a failure.

The opposition party in statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan on Friday, described the statement as ‘medicine after death’, noting that as long as he is a product of the corrupt, inept, directionless and anti-people All Progressives Congress (APC), he will leave as a failed leader.

Ologbondiya said the President’s attempt at political damage control cannot help his fizzling APC, adding that President Buhari’s veiled admission of failure, which smacks as a tactic to exonerate the APC, is an exercise in futility as the party which, according to him, now only exists on paper, will soon fizzle from our political firmament.

He also noted that the APC has clearly shown itself as perverted platform that cannot be entrusted with governance at any level in the country, adding that President Buhari and his APC have failed in their three-pronged promises of security, anti-corruption and economic development.

“They have instead wrecked all sectors of our nation life with no hope in sight. What explanation can the Buhari Presidency and the APC offer for failing to decisively tackle terrorists, insurgents and bandits, who are daily ravaging our communities, killing and maiming our compatriots in various states across the country, despite the huge resources at their disposal?

“How do President Buhari and APC leaders sleep at night when they know that due to their incompetence and compromises, hundreds of Nigerians, including school children are languishing in kidnappers’ den at the mercies of their assailants and the elements?”, he said.

He further stated that President Buhari has also failed as a Commander-in-Chief to the extent that non-state actors have taken over, with regions now resorting to their own security outfits while state governors, including his home, Katsina State governor, Aminu Bello Masari, telling helpless victims of terror attacks to defend themselves.

“On the economy front, President Buhari has only succeeded in ruining the once robust economy handed over to him by the PDP administration in 2015 and turned Nigeria into the poverty capital of the world, where over 82.9 million once thriving Nigerians can no longer afford their daily meals and other necessities of life.

“Moreover, the Buhari Presidency cannot point to any landmark project it conceptualized, started and completed in the last six years. All it can boast of is the mortgaging of the future of our nation with accumulated N33.107 trillion debt with nothing to show and no clear repayment plan.

“More atrocious is that Mr. President is seeking to borrow additional N5.62 trillion, when he knows that he has less than two years in office”, he added.

The PDP spokesman also observed that rather than fighting corruption, the APC-led Buhari administration has become the citadel of corruption where over N15 trillion naira have reportedly been stolen by APC leaders from various agencies under the cover of government.

“Nigerians can recall how the PDP recently held a strategic meeting where suggestions on how to entrench unity, reduce tension, fight insurgency, curb corruption and restore our nation to the path of economic progress, were placed at the behest of Mr. President and how he failed to listen to the voice of reason.

“What is expected of Mr. President and the APC at this point is for them to end their media orchestrations, apologize for their failure and allow Nigerians to chart a fresh course as they rally with the PDP to salvage our dear nation”, he stressed.