PDP to Buhari: Comparing Period under Your Watch to Civil War Experience Vindicates Us

By Chuks Okocha

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday said that the admission by President Muhammadu Buhari in his independence anniversary speech, that Nigerians have faced difficulties that are similar to the situation of the civil war under his administration, vindicated its stand that his government was incompetent, confused and the worst in the history of our country.

The party insisted that the fact that President Buhari compared the challenges and sufferings being faced by Nigerians under his administration to the agony of the civil war, underscores the horrible situation in the country today.

In President Buhari’s words “The past 18 months have been some of the most difficult periods in the history of Nigeria. Since the civil war, I doubt whether we have seen a period of more heightened challenges than what we have witnessed in this period.”

In a statement by the National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, PDP said this grave assertion brings to mind the ugly images of the civil war; the killings, lawlessness, violence, human rights violations, poverty, hunger, starvation and other horrible situations as also being currently witnessed today under the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led administration.

According to the PDP, “From Mr. President’s admission, it is clear that he has nobody but himself to blame for the sorry situation in Nigeria under his watch

“It is therefore a pathetic antithesis for Mr. President to attempt to exonerate himself by claiming that no government, since 1999, has done what his administration has done in six years; a claim that portrays a desperation to parry blame for the consequences of the misrule of his administration.

“Rather, what obtains in the public space is that no government has since 1999 brought our nation to her knees on every facet of life like the Buhari administration,” the PDP stated.

The party further said that it was appalling that in his speech, President Buhari had no concrete assurance on how to revamp the economy and how to end acts of terrorism in the country, instead, the PDP said that the speech, as usual, dwelt on empty claims that have no bearing with the actual situation in the country.

According to PDP, “Such disposition further exposes the insensitivity of the APC towards the plight of millions of Nigerians and confirms that our nation will end in ruins if the APC is allowed to stay in power any moment beyond May 29, 2023.”