The People’s Democratic Party, PDP, on Tuesday said President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to Jos after weekend’s genocide/ killing of over a hundred persons was belated accusing him of showing more interest in 2019 presidential election than governance.
The PDP regretted that “Our country has almost returned to a burial parlour. Nigerians are in pain over the needless killings.”
The National Publicity Secretary of the Party, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, speaking with journalists in Akure, said the President was insensitive to the genocide in the country hence his visit to Cross River instead of first to Plateau State where hundreds of lives were wasted.
Ologbondiyan said: “For us in the People’s Democratic Party, we believe that President Muhammadu Buhari is more interested in the 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 return in 2019.
“There is a huge loss of lives in Plateau State and we feel that it goes beyond the issue of sending Vice President to go and check.
“We think that the first place that Mr. President should go to is Plateau State, not going to commission a state project in Cross River.
“We cannot say that because Cross River is a PDP state, we should encourage Mr. President to do what is not justifiable because we want the president to do what is sensitive to the feelings of ordinary Nigerians.”
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“His action of going to Cross River at the expense of first going to Plateau, where a huge numbers of Nigerians have been killed is to say the least is irresponsible.
“As a matter of fact, what singular project has Mr. President commissioned on behalf of Federal Government in last two years?
“The President is always going after projects like commissioning of bus stop or commissioning of borehole in another state, whereas the basic responsibility of being in governance is protection of lives and property.
“We are witnessing a situation which is not known in our country. Our country has almost returned to a burial parlour.
“We believe that should be a concern to Mr. President not chasing after state projects for commissioning all in the game of seeking re-election in 2019.
“Nigerians are in pains over the loss of lives and the lives of a single Nigerian is as important as the lives of hundreds of Nigerians.
Responding to the President’s statement on restructuring of the country that people with ulterior motives and personal interest were the ones behind its call, the PGP spokesperson said: “We must understand that the APC is not a political party. APC is a movement. APC deceived Nigerians, they lied to Nigerians and because our political system is metamorphosing , Nigerians didn’t believe that a group of political elites can come together, just to lie to them and seized political power.
“It is not new to us in our party that APC is now claiming that restructuring is parochial or restructuring has different meaning to different people.
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