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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