IMPUNITY: PDP commends Timi-Frank, tells Buhari what to do ahead of 2019

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has reacted to an attack on President Muhammadu Buhari by a chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Timi Frank.

Frank, a deputy national publicity secretary of the APC, had in an open letter to President Buhari said that corruption and impunity had worsened under the current APC led Federal Government.

He then went on to ask immediate past President Goodluck Jonathan for forgiveness for the roles he played in replacing his administration with the current Buhari’s government which he said, is trampling on fundamental rights of Nigerians, disobedience to court orders, worsened corruption, impunity, among others.

Responding on this, the PDP described Frank’s attack on Buhari as patriotic, bold, courageous and in the interest of the nation. It urged other democrats and public-spirited persons in the APC to speak out for “our nation and take the bold step of withdrawing from the APC and rallying with other well-meaning Nigerians in the repositioned PDP.”

The party also asked Buhari to quickly respond to issues contained in the letter by Frank, noting that the president’s response has become “imperative given the weighty issue of humongous corruption, intimidation of citizens, erosion of freedom, constitutional breaches and persecution of citizens under the guise of fight against corruption, for which Nigerians and the international community demand immediate explanations.”

The party has also called President Buhari to be prepared to accept defeat in the 2019 general election, given that all indices, including those released by his Presidency, show that Nigerians across board have overtly rejected him for another four years in office.

“Indeed, with the degenerated economic, security and social situations in our nation under his incompetent and anti-people administration, in addition to the spate and weight of direct disapprovals from Nigerians and international bodies, President Buhari knows that he is now swimming against the tide.

“Apart from the acute poverty, hunger and starvation he brought, Nigerians have reached a consensus that President Buhari has betrayed the trust of the ordinary people, particularly in the north, especially with scandalous revelations that he is not indeed pro-poor and uncorrupt as they were made to believe in 2015.

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“This is in addition to his disconcerting aloofness to the plight of citizens, his failure to initiate and implement any development project in any party of the country and the refusal to fulfill the littlest of his 2015 campaign promises.

“The Presidency should therefore not be surprised that our citizens are now rallying on the platform of the repositioned PDP, a party known for all-inclusiveness and people-oriented policies, to rescue the nation from grips of the Buhari-led APC administration.”

The PDP made these known in two separate statements it released on Monday through its national publicity secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan.

 

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