The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to stop giving excuses and face the business of governing Nigeria.
The PDP also said that Buhari and the All Progressives Congress
(APC) were well aware of the economic problems in the country before
they assumed office yet they insisted on making bogus promises to
Nigerians.
This was contained in a statement released on Tuesday, June 23, 2015, by PDP National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh.
It reads:
“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 pretences.”
“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.”
“We ask, is President Buhari’s
statement an admission of poor knowledge of national and international
economic affairs or does it underscore the lack of capacity and skills
by the administration to effectively harness and galvanize resources and
potential inherent in Nigeria which has already been nurtured as
Africa’s largest economy and one of the fasted growing in the world.”
“Even
if Nigerians decide to wait endlessly, we wonder how much the President
can achieve amidst the flip-flops from his presidency and cacophony of
interests from his party leaders struggling to enlarge their selfish
political and economic frontiers.”
“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?”
“Since
after their electoral victory, the APC and the President have continued
to expose their lack of commitment towards their campaign promises. We
recall that on May 5, 2015, twenty-four days before his inauguration,
President Buhari at a meeting with APC leaders in Abuja opened the
excuse galore when he expressed his nervousness to deliver in office,
adducing that ‘Rome was not built in a day’.”
“We
also recall that in their attempt to find an escape route in one of
their bogus campaign promises, the APC denied that the President ever
promised Nigerians that they will end insurgency two months after
inauguration but had to swallow their words after the PDP confronted
them with the April 22, 2015 CNN interview where Buhari made that
promise.”
“Indeed, we empathize with the President
knowing that the confusion and clear lack of direction in his party
have not helped matters, but we urge him to rise up to the challenge,
take urgent steps and disentangle himself from the selfish and
unpatriotic tendencies of APC leaders, especially given the fact that
Nigerians gave him a mandate for which they will continue to hold him
accountable.”
“Finally, the PDP restates that it
is eager to see the APC and the President unveil their economic roadmap
and blueprint for governance so as to enable us through robust
opposition, provide credible alternatives and options for their policies
and programmes in the overall interest of our dear nation.”
Buhari
had said on Monday, June 22, that he had inherited a virtually empty
treasury from the administration of former President, Goodluck Jonathan.
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