The Nigeria’s Presidency says It said the claims, by the “failing” People’s Democratic Party (PDP) that President Muhammadu Buhari had gone on a 10-day leave in order to leave the stage for unconstitutional actions by the administration, are both ridiculous and a hollow narrative to garner cheap sympathy.
It noted however with approval that Nigerians have lost complete trust and faith in the PDP so much that they no longer believe the party and its politicians on anything.
Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity Mallam Garba Shehu, on Thursday, stated this in a statement copy of which was made available toThe DEFENDER.
According to the statement, the Presidency wonders that President Buhari’s handing over to his deputy without compulsion, in a way seen by commonsense as exemplary and innovative behaviour, was not appreciated by the PDP.
It was however not too surprised as, according to the statement, such exemplary and innovative handing over to the deputy as Acting President “the PDP failed to produce in their sixteen years of monumental mismanagement and sadistic plunder”.
The statement read in full:
“It is in the Claims by the failing Peoples Democratic Party that President Muhammadu Buhari had taken a 10-day leave in order to leave the stage for illegal and unconstitutional actions by the administration are both ridiculous and a hollow narrative to garner cheap sympathy.
“That the President, himself a sworn democrat had handed power to his deputy without compulsion is itself exemplary and innovative, something that the PDP failed to produce in their sixteen years of monumental mismanagement and sadistic plunder.
“For the benefit of the doubters, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, the Vice President who acts in the absence of the President is a lawyer of the highest rank and a social rights crusader who had received local and international acclaim before he took the present office. It is inconceivable that this is the team to copy the bad manners cast in stone in the PDP.
“We welcome objective criticism and take them seriously and humbly, but Nigerians must by now be tired of a party, the stock in trade of which is to cry wolf where there is none, ostensibly to spread negativity and distract the President’s attention from the cleansing operations he has been mandated to carry out.
“The President is carrying out difficult reforms for the future growth of the country, such as the implementation of the ease of doing business, the Treasury Single Account, TSA, the whistleblower process, and hundreds of others, including the massive investment in rail, roads and power. If such reforms had happened in 16 years of the PDP, it would have made things much better for the country.
“Instead, they seem to be fixated with a desperate quest for power, nothing but power for its own sake because they have nothing to offer. They draw a sadistic pleasure when things appear to be going wrongly, yet they offer nothing by way of remedy or solutions.
“The whole country is fighting corruption and the ordinary citizen is happy about all that is happening. The economic parameters have changed for the better, a clear indication that the administration’s political and economic strategies are working but the opposition is not interested.
“If the PDP doesn’t have anything that would help our farmers, women, the common man and the youth, they should just keep quiet.
“In the end, one thing Nigerians should take away from the cacophonous falsehoods from the PDP and the tenants back in their tent is that they all fear one thing, that their old records will be reopened.”
The PDP was the party in power when Nigeria was said to have been governed in 16 years with nothing to show including the electricity project that one of its regimes spent $16 billion upon but without electricity available to the citizens and many roads contracts awarded without execution.
After 16 years of those reigns, the Administration of All Progressives Congress (APC), it has been gathered, came with backlog of inherited awarded but unexecuted and uncompleted projects and which the new government has been continuing, completing and commissioning.
It will be recalled that the PDP, now as main opposition party, has been laying claims to many of the projects of the Buhari Administration as its initiatives but Nigerians have given it back to the opposition party, “If they were your initiatives, what stopped you from executing and completing them after you got monies paid on for those purposes?”
