The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has said President Muhammadu Buhari’s last minute campaign speech was full of lies and false claims of achievements which do not exist.
The PDP stated this in reaction to President Buhari’s speech on Thursday, which it described as a last gasp of a drowning administration.
The PDP in a statement signed by the National Publicity Secretary and
Director, Media & Publicity, PDP Presidential Campaign Organization, Kola Ologbondiyan said the speech was “laced with fabrications and false performance claims, characteristic of a failed leader, who has been rejected by the people.
The party however, noted that it was rather too late in the day for President Buhari to redeem himself with an academic speech as Nigerians, have moved ahead with the people’s candidate, Atiku Abubakar, and are no longer ready to listen to his list of false promises and a long claim of non-existent achievements.
The statement stated , “It is ludicrous that at a time President Buhari should be remorseful and apologize for his failures that led to the biting economic hardship, hunger, job losses, killings and escalated bloodletting in our country, under his watch, he chose to engage in a last minute attempt to sway Nigerians with falsehood.
“Nigerians watched a President Buhari, who, having seen the handwriting on the wall, struggled with false economic growth figures and sought to blackmail the people with claims of non-existent food security and false assurances of safety in a nation heavily plagued by unemployment, loss of jobs, poverty as well as escalated insurgency and banditry.
“Nigerians watched as President Buhari claimed a rise in foreign reserves but failed to accept responsibility for the huge rise in our nation’s debt and the fact that our nation has become the poverty capital of the world.”
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The PDP noted with dismay that under President Buhari, members of global democratic institutions working for peaceful elections in Nigeria were threatened by Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai, that they will return to their countries in body bags and queried how they would take his assurance of safety
The PDP warned President Buhari to note that he had come to the end of the road and that Nigerians were no longer with him.
“He should therefore end all his rigging plots and allow Nigerians to rebuild our nation under the leadership of Atiku Abubakar, whom they have reached a consensus to vote in as the next President of our country. Afterall, he will not be the first President to lose in an election.”
