Buhari lacks brilliance to govern modern Nigeria – PDP

By Lateef Ibrahim

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has listed some of the achievements recorded by Obasanjo/Atiku administration, saying that President Muhammadu Buhari lacks the required brilliance to govern a modern Nigeria, haven collapsed economy of the country.
The opposition party therefore challenged the APC to list achievements of the present administration of President Muhammadu Buhari/Prof Yemi Osinbajo.
The PDP, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan in Abuja, said that it has gladly accepted the challenge by the APC to list a few of many achievements of the Obasanjo-Atiku administration.
According to the statement, “The PDP gladly accepts the challenge by the APC to list a few of the many achievements of the Obasanjo-Atiku administration.
“In doing this, we also counter challenge the APC to name three projects initiated, started, and completed by the Buhari administration in its almost five years of governance.
“While the PDP had chosen not to allow the fizzling APC to distract us from our focus, particularly in finding solutions for the COVID-19 pandemic, we cannot keep quiet and allow those who had reversed all our national gains in a space of five years, to continue to engage in distortions, outright lies and appropriation of projects executed by the PDP to continually spit on the memories of Nigerians.
“It is sad that a patriotic and non-partisan rescue effort by Atiku Abubakar was met with insults, animus and aspersions by an administration under which Nigeria is collapsing economically, just because it lacks the required competence and brilliance for modern governance.
“This is a government under which our nation has become the poverty capital of the world; our foreign debts have quintupled from $7 billion in 2015 to $30 billion today; our once highly rated banking sector is now shedding its workforce; our service sector has collapsed, with the health sector now begging Elon Musk for medical supplies on Twitter.
“This is an administration under which our currency is listed as the fourth worst performing currency on earth, and has been devalued 112% from its 2015 value; a government that is now footing its basic bills via foreign borrowings with corruption festering so much that our agencies had literally become Automated Teller Machine (ATM) for its officials and cabals.
“It indeed speaks volumes that the same day that the Times of London carried a headline ‘Nigeria’s President Buhari Appoints Dead Man to Run Government Agency’, was the day the APC had the gall to accuse former Vice President Atiku Abubakar of being a part of an administration that achieved little. It is sad that the APC would take this route”, it said.