The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has lambasted the federal government over the statement that Nigeria is in a safe hand with President Muhammadu Buhari at the helm of affairs.
The leading opposition party said the reality on the ground showed that the nation was on “auto pilot and drifting to the precipice.”
The party said that due to alleged incompetence and corrupt tendency of its current handlers, Nigerians had suffered untold hardship.
The PDP expressed shock that the Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, could make such a statement while “watching Nigerians agonise 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 it was either the minister had lost touch with reality or just trying to play with words to please the Buhari Presidency or its crisis-ridden party, All Progressives Congress (APC).
The party said it sympathised with Mohammed in his job of trying to launder the image of the government.
It however added that he should not incur the wrath of Nigerians in the course of performing the onerous task.
“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).
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“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 polarised 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,” PDP said in its statement.
The party added that Mohammed had further exposed the fact that the administration was not the least remorseful for the pain it had caused the people.