The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Organization (PPCO) has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s 2019 New Year speech as pathetically empty.
The main opposition party also claimed that the first 2019 message from the President showed that he has finally conceded defeat to its party.
In a statement signed by PPCO Director Media and Publicity, Kola Ologbondiyan on Tuesday claimed “President Buhari could not articulate any concrete commitment on anysector of our national life, not only that he is bereft of ideas, but also because he has lost projections, having realized that Nigerians are not ready to give him a second term in office.
Ologbondiyan also added: “Even when he admitted in his opening that the turn of the New Year is a time for stock-taking and unfolding of new prospects, Nigerians are invited to note that Mr. President, in his entire speech, could not point to any single achievement he made in the out-going year, neither could he unfold any development prospect for the New Year.
He said: “Indeed, any discerning mind could see that President Buhari has finally switched into valedictory mode, having realized that Nigerians have seen through the falsehood, lies and deception that have characterized his incompetent and corrupt presidency for almost four years.
Ologbondiyan also accused President Buhari of not having “prospects on security despite the daily killings in the land. Even as a Commander-In- Chief, he has no words for our gallant troops daily laying down their lives, fighting insurgents in the North East. He had no soothing word for the victims of bloodlettings in various parts of the country.
Continuing, the statement reads: “Furthermore, President Buhari had no prospects on our ailing economy. He has no plans for our grossly under-performing power sector; nothing on health, education, agriculture, transportation, commerce and industry.
“He has nothing on job creation, empowerment of our entrepreneurs, and no blueprints for increased foreign direct investments into our nation.
“President Buhari said nothing about burning labour issues in the country.
He also choose to overlook the ASUU strike that has crippled our tertiary institutions. He has no plans on how to shore up the value our naira, increase purchasing power of citizens and reduce the high costs of goods and services in our land.
“Instead, President Buhari, dwelt on unnecessary diatribes, finger- pointing, hate speech and fixation on the 2019 general elections, in which an imminent defeat awaits him and his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The PPCO called on Nigerians “to rescue our nation from President Buhari and his cabal by working harder in rallying behind our Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, who has already articulated practical templates to reposition our nation and return her to the path of good governance, political stability and economic prosperity.
