The Peoples Democratic Pary PDP has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to resign, stressing that his administration has wrecked the nation’s economy.
The opposition party in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan said the Presidency’s dismissal of Financial Times editorial that described Nigeria as a failed state, confirmed leadership failure in Nigeria.
According to the statement, it was sad the Presidency preferred to rebuff “wise counsel” rather than seek help for the country.
“Indeed, the editorial by Financial Times is only stating the obvious, as our nation under President Buhari has presented all the trappings of a failed state, including having a rudderless government with a dysfunctional command structure that cannot guarantee security, manage our economy or even perform very simple tasks of governance.
“Our great nation now tends towards a leaderless society where terrorists, bandits, kidnappers, marauders and vandals have taken the lead, running riotously across our land while those who promised to protect life and property have gone into hiding in Aso Presidential Villa.
“Under President Buhari, life is fast tilting towards Hobbesian state of nature; driven by the combined negatives of an incompetent and unconcerned presidency and a reckless, kleptomaniac and dysfunctional ruling party that is more interested in power-grabbing instead of governance.”
“The Buhari administration has wrecked our once robust economy, destroyed the value of our naira and turned our nation into world poverty capital, where life has become so unbearable that compatriots now resort to suicide and slavery mission abroad as options,” the PDP declared.
The opposition party cautioned officials of the presidency against playing with the sensibilities of Nigerians by “their arrogant dismissal of wise counsel on how to redeem our nation.”
“They should advise President Buhari to take a back seat and allow competent hands to manage critical sectors of our national life before it is too late.
“The Buhari Presidency’s arrogant trivialization of our nation’s tragic descent to a failed state under the incompetent and corrupt Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC) administration, further confirms that our nation is on autopilot with nobody in charge,” PDP said.
