Buhari has no confidence in his govt, party – PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that  the presidency’s continuous reference to a presidential successor, less than a year into President Muhammadu Buhari’s second tenure, is an indication that the president does not have confidence in his government.

The party in a statement issued by its national publicity secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, Wednesday noted that “President Buhari’s apprehensions that his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), will fizzle out before 2023 is also a weighty forewarning to Nigerians not to put any hope whatsoever in the APC.

 PDP also charged the Buhari presidency to ” immediately apologise to the nation over its comment to “hand Nigeria over”, insisting that such is a direct affront to Nigerians and a huge insult on their sensibility and sense of sovereignty to freely choose their leader.

Continuing, the statement reads: “The party invites Nigerians to note that such continued allusion to a successor by the Buhari presidency shows that the president and the APC have no agenda for the nation for the next three years.

“It further underscores the hopelessness of the administration and the sorry situation our nation is faced with under President Buhari and the APC.

“The PDP laments that such underlined the pathetic drift in President Buhari’s New Year speech as well as his failure to articulate a clear-cut agenda in critical sectors.

“It also exposes the reason behind APC’s resort to blackmail, fabrication and attack on well-meaning Nigerians instead of enunciating a direction for its incompetent administration.

“Our party, standing with millions of Nigerians, counsels the Buhari presidency to bury its confessed interests in the 2023 presidency and desist from making unsolicited allusions and references to a successor, as failed leaders can only bequeath failure on a people.

“The PDP therefore charges the Buhari presidency to immediately withdraw the offensive and provocative remark to “hand Nigeria over”, in its response to Rev. Tunde Bakare’s comment on the 2023 Presidency.

“Our party cautions the Buhari presidency to note that Nigeria is a sovereign nation governed by rules and that nobody, no matter how highly placed, has the power to hand her over to anybody.”

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