Buhari’s visit to Plateau belated, afterthought ―PDP

THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday, criticised President Muhammadu Buhari, over his afterthought visit to Plateau State over the killing of scores of people in the state, describing the visit as belated.

The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, who stated this in Akure, Ondo state capital, said President Buhari has failed in its constitutional responsibility of protecting lives and property.

Ologbondiyan noted that the President was more interested in his re-election bid than to provide adequate security to the people who voted him into power.

He said “for us in the PDP, we believed that President Buhari is more interested in 2019 Presidential election than governance. He does not care about what happened between now and 2019.

He goes after votes and his passionate drive is how to secure electoral victory in his ill-fated desire to returned in 2019.

Otherwise, there is a huge lost of lives in the Plateau state and we felt that it goes beyond the issue of sending Vice President to go and check.

We think that responsibly, the first place that Mr President should go to is the Plateau state, not going to commission a state project in Cross River.

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We cannot say that because Cross River is a PDP state and encourage Mr President to do what is not just because we want the President to do what is sensitive to the feelings of ordinary Nigerians.

His action of going to Cross river at the expense of going to Pleasure, where a huge number of Nigerians has been killed is, to say the least, is irresponsible.”

Ologbondiyan stated that the APC government and President Buhari had failed to add value to the lives of the common man in the last three years but noted that the President has been moving around commissioning white elephant projects.

He said “as a matter of fact, what singular project has Mr President commissioned on behalf of Federal Government in last 2 years? The President always move about to commission projects like bus stop or boreholes in another state, whereas the basic responsibilities of being in governance are the protection of lives and property.

“We are witnessing a situation where country and our nation is almost returned to a burial parlour.
We believed that that should be a concern to Mr President not chasing after state projects for commissioning all in the game of seeking reelection in 2019.”

Speaking on the APC position on restructuring, Ologbondiyan said it was difficult for the party and its leaders to embrace restructuring because APC is a movement.

He said ” they lied to Nigerians and because our political system is metamorphosing, Nigerian didn’t believe that group of a political elite can come together, just to lied to them and seized political power.

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” can you tell me apart from restructuring, the singular promised that APC had made and had lived up to it ? not one, so denying restructuring wouldn’t be a surprise to us in the PDP because we knew from the onset that the party did not mean well for Nigerians.

“It is not new to us in our party that APC is now claiming that restructuring is parochial or restructuring has the different meaning to different people.”