PDP berates APC over Buhari’s excuses

National publicity secretary of the PDP, Chief Lisa Metuh says the recent appeal by President Muhammad Buhari that Nigerians should not expect much from him within his first hundred days in office does not hold water as it negates the promise his party made to Nigerians during the campaign period.
He therefore asked the president to live up to his electoral promises and stop offering excuses.
The party described as evasive, diversionary and preemptive, the present government’s pile up of excuses for what the former ruling party said it foresaw as possible failure in delivering on its campaign promises to Nigerians.

The PDP, which ruled the country for 16 years, said it was unfortunate that President Buhari and the APC, who it said were privy to the nation’s dwindling economy occasioned by global economic downturn and fall in international oil price, even before the start of the campaigns, chose to deceive Nigerians with bogus promises, only to now resort to excuses after using the promises to secure power at the centre.
Metuh in a statement released in Abuja on Tuesday, said his party noted with dismay, President Buhari’s statement on Monday that Nigerians should not expect much from his first 100 days in office on claims that he met “virtually an empty treasury and huge debts,” noting that such only underlines the fact that the present administration is really not equipped to face the challenges of governance.

The statement read in part, “While we restate our resolve to engage only in credible and issue-based opposition, we want the President and the APC to note that their plea for patience from Nigerians does not arise, because ab initio, there has not been any indication that they are actually serious and determined to deliver on their campaign promises upon which they rode to power.

“Of course, Nigerians are willing to support and cooperate with the President, but we are worried that the pictures emerging from his presidency and his party do not in any way inspire hope in the citizenry, especially as they have continued to show that theirs is ostensibly a matter of obtaining power by false pretenses.

“President Buhari and the APC must know that Nigerians did not give them the mandate to engage in frivolous excuses and pleas but to hit the ground running with solutions and quick fixes they promised during the campaigns.”

Metuh said the statement by the President could be an admission of his poor knowledge of national and international economics affairs.

“How can one reconcile President Buhari’s statement with the recent ridiculous and misleading claim by APC’s National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, that this administration has achieved in three weeks what the immediate past administration did not achieve in five years?” he asked.

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