The peoples Democratic Party (PDP) views with disappointment the apparent snub by the President-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari of the handover programme lined up by the Federal Government to transmit power to him by Friday, May 29, 2015. The PDP said such behavior was a measure of lack of democratic discipline.
PDP National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh in a statement on Sunday
said the President-elect owes Nigerians explanations on why he snubbed the prayer
sessions scheduled for Friday and Sunday for Muslims and Christians
respectively to usher in four years of his in-coming administration as well as the
embarrassing protocol gaffe and low-down treatment that characterized his visit
to British Prime Minister David Cameron last Saturday.
The PDP said it was disgraceful that due to poor coordination and crass
ineptitude in the handling of issues, the President-elect was left almost
stranded while waiting for about thirty minutes before he was received by the
British leader and wondered if such is a foretaste of the muddling to be
experienced under the All Progressives Congress (APC)’s administration.
“Nigerians, as citizens of a sovereign nation were thoroughly
embarrassed when they saw their President-elect cheapened and kept waiting at
the door of 10 Downing Street to see the British Prime Minister due to shoddy
arrangements by his handlers.
“Indeed, they are becoming increasingly worried about the frightening
unpreparedness of the APC for governance and the huge embarrassments they have
been attracting to our nation. We know that the APC has been lying over
issues. We also know that the APC and the President-elect have been
flip-flopping and reneging on their campaign promises; but to embarrass the
nation by embarking on such a sensitive visit without adequate preparations is
shameful and completely unacceptable.
“We share the fear of well-meaning Nigerians on how a party which cannot
adequately handle a simple task of organizing a diplomatic outing will
effectively administer a country as complex as Nigeria.
“The APC has continued to give signals that it lacks capacity to face
the challenges of governance. Such has been evidenced in the uneasiness of the
President-elect who in apparent loss of confidence in himself has started
reneging on his promises of quick fixes while confessing in a meeting with APC
governors-elect on May 5, 2015 that he has ‘started nervously to explain to
people that Rome was not built in a day’.
“Instead of settling down for governance and working out how to fulfill
its promises of making the naira the same in value with the dollar, paying N5,
000, 000 monthly to 25 million poor Nigerians, providing electricity on 24/7
basis, providing free meals for school children and allowances for discharged
but unemployed youth corps members among others, the APC is busy inventing
excuses for failure and blaming everyone else but themselves. We hope they will
not blame the PDP for their Saturday’s embarrassing outing at 10 Downing
Street.
"Furthermore, we find it curious and more than a co-incidence that
the nation is experiencing an acute shortage of fuel and electricity
supply at this point in time, when such has not been the case under the
current PDP-led administration. We ask, are there some forces sabotaging
the system to create an impression that the APC is inheriting poor
infrastructure and complete system breakdown?
"Is this also part of the larger plot to embarrass and defame the
PDP-led administration in an attempt to justify APC's excuses for
failure", the PDP probed.
The party insisted that despite the challenges of insecurity and global
economic recession that negatively affected many other nations, its
administration had in the last 16 years worked very hard in repositioning
critical sectors of the polity and laying strong infrastructure backbone that
that any prepared and result oriented in-coming administration can comfortably leverage
on.
It therefore asked the APC to get ready to apply its much-mouthed
manifesto or be bold to apologize to Nigerians for presenting false messianic
posture and making false promises to them.
Signed:
Olisa Metuh
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