Democracy Day: Buhari’s speech full of false claims – PDP

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the Democracy Day address by President Muhammadu Buhari as uninspiring, hollow, full of self-praise and false performance claims, without addressing issues agitating the minds of Nigerians.
PDP in a statement signed by its spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan, yesterday, said the address was garnished with a list of phantom projects and executive regurgitations, inherently designed by his handlers to sway Nigerians and divert attention from the many failures of this administration.
It alleged the speech did not connect with Nigerians who are groaning under the worst form of poverty, starvation and economic hardship occasioned by the APC-led federal government misrule.
The statement accused the federal government of showing no inclination towards justice for victims of abuse of human rights, reported executive high-handedness, illegal arrests and detentions, extra-judicial executions as well as victims of killings and daily bloodletting in Benue, Taraba, Zamfara, Kaduna,Plateau, Borno, Kogi, Yobe and other parts of the country, by insurgents and marauders.
“The President said nothing on the humonguous corruption going on under his administration, where APC leaders and cabal at the Presidency have stolen over N10 trillion, mainly from a sector under his direct supervision.
“Incredibly, Mr.
President handlers chose to subject him to a fantasy trip, making false performance claims with phantom projects, muddling up economic statistics and ended up worsening his already diminished public perception”, it stated and concluded that its NWC will formally address Nigerians on the issues of misrule of our nation in the last three years.
Meanwhile, the PDP national chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, has urged Nigerians to vote out President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2019 for the survival of the nation’s democracy.
Secondus through his Senior Assistant on Media Ike Abonyi, said: “If Democracy must survive in our country we must do away with APC and Nigerians are ready and willing to do just that because they cherish democracy as the best form of government.
“Going by their poor record of performance in the last 36 months, and the determination of Nigerians to put the country in the right footing, this is the last Democracy Day this President will mark”, noting this year’s will be last Democracy Day staged by the APC government.