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Buhari’s New Year message was a veiled valedictory speech —PDP
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has reacted to the new year message delivered to Nigerians by President Muhammadu Buhari on the last day of 2018.
The PDP said “any discerning mind could see that President Buhari has finally switched into a valedictory mode.”
The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Kola Ologbondiyan, on Tuesday said the President ignored major areas the country was facing challenges, including daily killing of Nigerians across the country.
He said the President’s message was uninspiring without clear cut strategies to tackle challenges of power, health, education, agriculture, transport, commerce and industry.
Ologbondiyan, who is also the Director, Media and Publicity, PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation (PPCO), therefore said Buhari acknowledged his imminent defeat in the forth coming election.
He said, “Even when he admitted that the new year is time for stocktaking and the unfolding of new prospects, Nigerians are invited to note that Mr President, in his entire message, could not point to any single achievement he made last year, neither could he unfold any developmental prospect for the new year.
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“Indeed, any discerning mind could see that President Buhari has finally switched into a valedictory mode, having realised that Nigerians have seen through the falsehood and deception that have characterised his incompetent and corrupt presidency for almost four years.
“Buhari has no prospects for security despite the daily killings in the land. Even as the commander in chief, he has no words for our gallant troops daily laying down their lives, fighting insurgents in the North-East. He had no soothing word for the victims of bloodletting in various parts of the country.”
“The PPCO, therefore, calls on Nigerians to rescue our nation from President Buhari and his cabal by working harder in rallying behind our presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, who has already articulated practical templates to reposition our nation and return her to the path of good governance, political stability and economic prosperity.
By Babatunde Alao….
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