The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has expressed disappointment with
what it describes as the apparent snub by the President-elect, 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
behaviour was a measure of lack of democratic discipline.
The 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’ 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 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 said
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.
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