The Peoples Democratic Party has called on President
Muhammadu Buhari to leave office immediately, but before quitting, the former
ruling party asked the President to return the country to how he met it when he
assumed office on May 29, 2015.
The spokesperson and a member of the party’s National
Caretaker Committee, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, said this in a statement he signed in
Abuja on Wednesday.
He said his party was not happy with the state of affairs in
the country. He specifically mentioned the statement credited to the Minister
of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, that, “recession is a word.”
Adeyeye said, “Is this statement as a result of ignorance,
lack of patriotism or in-line with President Buhari’s comment that his
ministers are noise makers?
“For the record, recession is characterised as a period of
negative economic growth for two consecutive quarters, given rise to high rate
of unemployment, fall in output, increase in government borrowing, etc.
“Following this understanding, Nigeria’s economy is already
near depression. The crass ineptitude and lukewarm-attitude of this All
Progressives Congress government is no longer tolerable, and therefore, we are
calling on President Buhari and his team to return Nigeria to its state of
booming economy before they assumed office in May, 2015, and then quit
immediately to allow other capable leaders revive our ailing economy.”
“What Nigerians want from this administration are positive
results and not resorting to throwing tantrums on the PDP at every given
opportunity.
“Our call for the President to return the country to how he
met it in 2015 is justified on the following grounds.
“In 2015 when the President came to power, a bag of rice was
selling at N7,000, but now, it is above N20,000; a ‘mudu’ of beans was N150
then and now, it is N500; one US dollar was then trading for N197 but now it is
over N400.
“Also, a litre of fuel was N87 but now is N145; cost of
transportation and other services had skyrocketed. Given our observations since
the inception of this government, they have nothing to offer and as such,
quitting will be a solution because nobody can give what he/she does not have.
The APC has failed.”
“When this government came to power in May 2015 riding on
the achievements of the previous PDP administration, President Buhari’s
handlers and his party, the APC, claimed it was his ‘body language’ that
brought some positive changes the country was witnessing at that time.
“So, we want to know what are the results of the so-called
‘body language’?”
“He can even quit right away for a more experienced team to
take over.”
“On May 13, 2010, the Jonathan administration announced the
contract award of three refineries which he called the greenfield refinery. One
was to be located in Bayelsa, one in Kogi and one in Lagos, if those refineries
were constructed, the billions of naira we are losing through vandalism of our
pipelines would not be the order of the day.
“If his wife, Patience, was wise enough to use the money she
used to build a hotel in Yenagoa for the refinery, we wouldn’t have been where
we are today.
“The Nigerian people know where the rain started beating us.
As the Petroleum Task Force chairman, Buhari, with the meagre resources at his
disposal, was able to build more kilometres of roads than the PDP did in 16
years, even though they had more money.
“Are they saying Nigeria should return to the years where
Boko Haram held all of us to ransom and the looting of the public treasury was
the order of the day?”
4 Comments
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