The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has admonished President Muhammadu Buhari to face its self-inflicted ordeal and address the consensus concern of Nigerians over his poor handling of security issues instead of seeking to blame the opposition and the media.
Describing as “derisory, self-inflicting, and diversionary” the threats and allegations by the Buhari Presidency, that the opposition is sponsoring a protest against the heads of military institutions, the PDP said this further showed the confusion that pervades the Buhari Presidency in the face of discontentment by Nigerians.
The party therefore alerted that the Buhari Presidency is now trying to divert attention by blackmailing the media and opposition because it can no longer face Nigerians over its manifest failure to deal with those behind acts of insurgency, terrorism, banditry, kidnapping and escalated violence under its watch.
The oarty said, “It is clear to all, including even the Buhari Presidency, that Nigerians across board, have been in protest against the Buhari-led All Progressives Congress, APC, administration and need nobody to mobilize them to publicly exercise their constitutionally guaranteed rights any day to register their discontentment against a failed administration that has continued to live on propaganda, excuses and denials.”
While restating its demand that the security high command should be rejigged to inject new blood to effectively tackle our security challenges; a position, which it said has become a consensus opinion of all other patriotic individuals and groups, including the two chambers of the National Assembly, and well known within and outside our country the opposition party said, ” Accusing the opposition and threatening the media are therefore diversionary and apparently aimed to validate alleged plots by agents of governments to clamp down on innocent Nigerians, the media and members of the civil society to suppress and foist a siege mentality on Nigerians.”
It added that it was aware that the accusation is part of the ploy by the Buhari Presidency to intimidate our it to abandon its demands for the Buhari administration to be alive to its responsibility to secure the nation or step aside for more competent hands to manage the affairs of our nation.
In a statement aigned by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, the PDP said, “Our party holds that instead of resorting to fabrications, blackmail and threats, a responsive and concerned administration should rather listen to the people, stop its blackmail, propaganda, denials and excuses; take urgent steps to rejig its security architecture and end the escalated bloodletting under its watch.”
