The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, says governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State should direct his frustration to President Muhammadu Buhari, who he once described as an incompetent, old fashioned, corrupt and tyrannical leader, unfit for office.
Rather than inciting violence in the country, the Party said El-Rufai should direct his venom towards Buhari, who has brought so much pain to Nigerians and himself, for his own insensitivity to Nigerians and support for anti-democratic tendencies of the Buhari administration.
In a statement signed by Kola Ologbondiyan, National Publicity Secretary And Director, Media & Publicity PDP Presidential Campaign Organization, the party noted that el-Rufai’s threats that members of the global democratic institutions working towards peaceful general elections in the country will return in body bags, has raised new questions regarding those behind the killing of expatriates and aid workers in various troubled parts of the country.
The PDP posited that it was quite revealing that el-Rufai, who, in 2010 described Gen. Buhari as ‘unelectable’ was now at the fore in defence of Buhari’s “incompetent and anti-democratic administration, to the extent of issuing death threats to others, just to secure his place under a dictatorial administration.”
The statement said further; “In 1984, Buhari allowed 53 suitcases belonging to his ADC’s father to enter Nigeria unchecked at a time the country was exchanging old currency for new…
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“Buhari was so high- handed that he gave himself and his officials immunity even from truthful reporting. That obnoxious Decree 4, against which truth was no defence, was used to jail journalists and attempt to cow the media as a whole. That tyrannical legislation shows the essence of his intolerance. These are facts of recent history. The story of counter-trade and import licensing, the cornerstone of Buhari’s stone-age economic strategy and those whose interests it served, is a tale for another day.”
Furthermore, the PDP said President Buhari’s “inept and colossally corrupt administration has wrecked our once robust economy, divided our nation, instituted executive high-handedness, violation of human rights, incessant breach of our constitution, disobedience of court order, assaults on our democratic institutions, clamp down of the media and dissenting voices, a scenario that has brought so much pain and anguish for Nigerians.”