PDP tackle Buhari over Covid-19, insecurity
By Laraba Raphael
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently address the mutant Covid-19 and insecurity bedeviling Nigeria.
In a statement by the Party’s National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, said, “It is worrisome that while other well-meaning Nigerians are seeking for solutions, Mr. President, who ought to provide words of comfort, hope, reassurances and direction to a people in travail and a nation that has become despondent due to his misrule, is nowhere to be seen.”
The Party said “The failure of Mr. President to make appearance and douse the frightening tension in the land has heightened public apprehension that the command structure of the Buhari administration has collapsed and that no one is in charge of the situation.”
According to Ologbondiyan, “The situation has also raised concerns across our country that the Buhari administration is not committed to the wellbeing of Nigerians as well as the unity, stability, national cohesion and peaceful coexistence of our nation”.
He further reiterated that, “It calls for concern that since President Buhari’s uninspiring and embarrassing Armed Forces Remembrance Day outing, where he again promised to tackle the problem of insecurity, Mr. President has not shown any further appearance or taken any decisive steps as expected to forcefully address the escalating insecurity.
“The question is, where is President Buhari at this troubled time? Where is the hope he promised the people? Where is the leading from the fronts that he had promised the people?
“It is indeed an absurdity that at every moment of crises in our country, Nigerians must be searching for Mr. President and begging him to take charge.
“Every day, our nation is jolted by reports of multiple deaths of our compatriots by COVID-19 as well as wanton killings by terrorists, bandits, kidnappers, with no decisive step by the current administration for solution” Ologbondiyan said.
The Party noted that, “Since the Buhari Presidency and the APC have lost grip of governance, particularly at this trying time, the PDP calls on patriotic Nigerians across board to quickly come together and commence discussions, within the ambits of our laws, to salvage our nation from the growing threats to the wellbeing of our people and corporate existence of our dear nation”.
