The Peoples’ Democratic
Party (PDP) has lampooned the Federal Government for telling Nigerians that the
country is in safe hands, when the reality on the ground shows that the nation
is on auto pilot and drifting to the precipice.
The party said that due
to the incompetence and corrupt proclivities of its current handlers, Nigerians
have suffered untold hardship.
The PDP expressed shock
that the Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, could make such a
flagrant statement while watching Nigerians agonize under the tragedies of
economic and security problems inflicted on them by the President Muhammadu
Buhari-led government
PDP National Publicity
Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, in a statement on Monday, said either the
minister had lost touch with reality or just trying to play with words to
please the incompetent Buhari Presidency or its crisis-ridden party, All
Progressives Congress (APC).
The party said it
sympathizes with the minister of information in his job of trying to launder
the image of a failed and rejected government but added that he should not
incur the opprobrium of Nigerians in the course of performing this onerous
task.
If a minister of
information who ought to give the correct state of affairs can announce that a
government which collapsed the nation’s once robust economy and plagued it with
violence, ethnic division and political tension, is indeed a safe hand, then
our nation is in much more trouble under the All Progressives Congress (APC).
How can anybody say that
the same Presidency whose incompetence and bad policies are directly
responsible for the unabated killings, massive unemployment and job losses,
collapse of businesses and even the lingering fuel crisis which has
brought untold hardship in the land is indeed a safe hand?
This is a government
under whose watch the nation has become heavily polarized along dangerous fault
lines and where citizens now live in fear and mutual suspicion; where citizens
are slaughtered by the day by marauders; where hunger and strange
diseases ravage the people due to its bad policies.
The reasonable take-away
from the statement of the information minister is that this government has come
to its wits end and has no solution for the troubles it caused the nation.
More so, the minister’s
statement has further exposed the fact that this failed administration is not
the least remorseful for the pain it has caused the people, which underpins its
arrogance and disdain towards Nigerians.
We however urge
Nigerians not to despair as the repositioned PDP stands with them in the
collective quest to end the misrule of the APC in 2019.
Signed:
Kola Ologbondiyan
National Publicity Secretary
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