Buhari’s Democracy Day speech empty, the last he’ll give as president – PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday reacted to President Muhammadu Buhari’s Democracy Day speech and said that it will be the last he will give as Nigeria’s President.

The opposition party described the speech as “uninspiring, hollow, full of self-praise and false performance claims” adding that he failed to address issues agitating the minds of Nigerians.

The party stated this in a statement by its national publicity secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan.

“The address, which is the worst since President Buhari took office in 2015, 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.

“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,” PDP said.

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The party also criticised Buhari for alleged failure to give words of assurance to Nigerians on the unrelenting violation of “our constitution; assault on the National Assembly and erosion of personal freedom of citizens.”

PDP added, “The President said nothing on the humongous 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.

 

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