The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has lampooned the Federal
Government for telling Nigerians that the country is in safe hands, when the reality
on the ground shows that the nation is on auto pilot and drifting to the
precipice.
According to the party, Nigerians have suffered untold
hardship due to the incompetence and corrupt proclivities of its current
handlers.
The PDP therefore expressed shock that the Minister of
Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, could make such a flagrant statement while
watching Nigerians agonize under the tragedies of economic and security
problems inflicted on them by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government
PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, in a
statement on Monday, said either the minister had lost touch with reality or
just trying to play with words to please the incompetent Buhari Presidency or its
crisis-ridden party, All Progressives Congress (APC).
The party in the statement, said it sympathizes with the minister of
information in his job of trying to launder the image of a failed and rejected
government but added that he should not incur the opprobrium of Nigerians in
the course of performing this onerous task.
It said further, "If a minister of information, who ought to give the correct
state of affairs can announce that a government, which collapsed the nation’s
once robust economy and plagued it with violence, ethnic division and political
tension, is indeed a safe hand, then our nation is in much more trouble under
the All Progressives Congress (APC).
"How can anybody say that the same Presidency whose
incompetence and bad policies are directly responsible for the unabated
killings, massive unemployment and job losses, collapse of businesses and even
the lingering fuel crisis which has brought untold hardship in the land is indeed
a safe hand?
"This is a government under whose watch the nation has become
heavily polarized along dangerous fault lines and where citizens now live in fear
and mutual suspicion; where citizens are slaughtered by the day by marauders;
where hunger and strange diseases ravage the people due to its bad policies.
"The reasonable take-away from the statement of the
information minister is that this government has come to its wits end and has
no solution for the troubles it caused the nation.
"More so, the minister’s statement has further exposed the
fact that this failed administration is not the least remorseful for the pain
it has caused the people, which underpins its arrogance and disdain towards Nigerians.
"We however urge Nigerians not to despair as the repositioned
PDP stands with them in the collective quest to end the misrule of the APC in
2019.
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