The
National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has
reviewed the escalating insecurity, rising political uncertainties, biting
economic hardship as well as prevailing tension in all parts of the country and
alarms that the nation is collapsing under President Muhammadu Buhari and his
All Progressives Congress (APC).
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The PDP
is deeply worried that our nation, which was a prosperity hub and a reference
point for democracy, personal freedom and good governance, now has all the
trappings of a failed state with government, under President Buhari, being
unable to guarantee any of its fundamental duties to the extent that citizens
are now desperate to take their destinies in their hands.
The
national leadership of the party rose from a crucial meeting on Wednesday
noting that the red flag has become urgent following the manifest total loss of
faith by Nigerians, across the board, in the ability of the Buhari Presidency
to provide a democratic leadership that can engender a peaceful and secure
nation.
It is
clear that the APC and the Buhari Presidency have held Nigerians hostage.
Nigerians are now being treated like a conquered people. They can no longer
freely exercise their constitutionally guaranteed rights; Executive
high-handedness have become a state policy just as the APC Government, burdened
by challenges of illegitimacy, has lost direction and only thriving in
vindictiveness.
The PDP
notes that due to the prevailing anti-democratic proclivities of the Buhari
Presidency, our once cohesive and economically thriving nation has come under
distress on all fronts; never in the history of our nation has our fault lines
become so visible; uncertainty now envelopes our nation; citizens are nervous
and agitated as ominous hopelessness sets in.
Our party
has also noticed that since the defence of the APC and President Buhari
collapsed at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, the APC and its
government have taken to harassment and repression of Nigerians by
surreptitiously suspending constitutional provisions of freedom of speech and
association in our country.
Many
compatriots are being taken in as political prisoners all in a bid to foist a
siege mentality and suppress public opinion.
Today,
the Buhari Presidency cannot guarantee the security and safety of citizens.
Bloodletting and violence have become the order of the day. Invaders,
insurgents, kidnappers and killers have taken over major highways and
communities; our nation’s security machinery have become overstretched;
Nigerians now live in palpable fear; they cannot freely travel within their
country and the government has no answers.
On the
economic front, President Buhari has ruined our economy and led our nation to
become the world’s capital of poverty, while condoning the humongous corruption
that has become the hallmark of his failed administration.
Sadly,
President Buhari’s anti-development policies, the corruption in his government
as well as its failure to provide security have scared away foreign investors
from our nation.
Only
recently, the United Nations declared that 43 percent of our nation's Foreign
Direct Investment (FDI) has taken flight to other countries. Unemployment has
gone out of proportion and there is no hope in sight.
Our worry
is that the prevailing situation of hopelessness under President Buhari and the
APC is threatening our national cohesion and corporate existence as a nation.
The PDP,
therefore, calls on all Nigerians of good faith as well as the international
community to come to the rescue by speaking out against the prevailing
situation in Nigeria before it is too late.
Also, the
PDP urges Nigerians not to despair but to keep hope alive in their confidence
towards the retrieval of Atiku Abubakar’s stolen presidential mandate at the
tribunal.
Signed:
Kola Ologbondiyan
National Publicity Secretary
National Publicity Secretary
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