PDP attacks Buhari, says he’s compounding sufferings of Nigerians

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has decried President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent comment that Nigerians, “who feel they have another country may choose to go”.

The opposition party described the “fresh outburst against suffering Nigerians as un-presidential, defeatist and characteristic of a failed leadership, which has lost all sense of responsibility towards its citizens.”

The comment, the PDP added in a statement on Wednesday by its national publicity secretary, has further confirmed that Buhari is “completely insensitive to the plight of our citizens and has no solution to the myriad of problems his incompetent and disorganized administration has caused our nation.”

Buhari was quoted by his spokesmen, Femi Adesina, of making the comment when he received Kwara State All Progressives Congress (APC) candidates for the 2019 polls in his office.

But responding, PDP described such comment as ‘unfatherly’ and a direct slap on the sensibilities of millions of Nigerians, who have been painfully bearing the economic hardship, hunger and starvation caused by “President Buhari’s wasteful and inept administration, to the extent that many have taken to suicide missions and slavery as survival options.”

The party said, “Such comment is a putrid spit on the graves of thousands of compatriots killed by marauders in various parts of the country, while the Buhari Presidency and dysfunctional All Progressives Congress (APC) remained aloof without decisive actions to end the carnage and bring the perpetrators of the bloodlettings to book.

“Mr. President’s comment is also a mockery on millions of Nigerians who have lost their businesses and whose families have been wrecked by the anti-people policies of the Buhari-led APC administration.

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“Since Mr. President now knows that Nigerians across board are hurting over the failures of his administrations, the least he, as an elected leader, should have done, was to accept responsibility, rise up to the occasion and find solutions, or at least, have some soothing words to suffering Nigerians instead of dismissing their pains and asking them to abandon their fatherland.”

The opposition party went further to say that the remark by “Mr. President also reminds of his widely condemned outbursts against our youths who he held in disdain as lazy and lovers of freebies.”

It therefore urged Buhari to come to terms with the fact that majority of Nigerians can no longer take the failures, insensitivity and incompetence of his administration and have now reached a consensus to elect our Presidential candidate, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, who has always displayed a commitment to the welfare of Nigerians.”

 

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