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This is just as the All Progressives Congress described the PDP Media Watchdog as a bunch of uninformed individuals.
The PDP said the group was not working in the interest of the opposition party.
The group had in an earlier statement by
its head, Mr. Tunde Lawal, called for Buhari’s resignation over
comments attributed to the President that there was a limit he could do
because of his age.
But the National Publicity Secretary of
the PDP, Mr. Olisa Metuh, in a statement, said, “This group is
absolutely unknown to the PDP and has no connection whatsoever with our
party at any level, neither is the content of their statement a
reflection of the position or stance of the party.
“For
the avoidance of doubt, our great party has not authorised this group
to use its name, acronym or logo to issue statements or make public
pronouncements on any matter and we caution those behind them to
henceforth desist from such immediately.
“The PDP therefore distances itself from
the embarrassing statement by this group wherein it called on President
Muhammadu Buhari to resign and went ahead to use offensive and
denigrating language on the person and office of the President of our
great country.
“This is completely unacceptable and
against the position of the PDP to engage only in robust and credible
opposition while constructively offering alternatives to the programmes
and policies of the APC-led government, preparatory to our return to
power in the next four years.”
He said that the attitude of this group
was a direct consequence of the approach adopted by the APC in
denigrating and insulting former President Goodluck Jonathan.
Metuh added that although the PDP was
aware that former President Jonathan suffered such fate in the hands of
the APC, the PDP would not repay the ruling party as such was not part
of the PDP’s tradition.
In a separate statement, the APC berated the PDP Media Watchdog for asking Buhari to resign.
In a statement by its National Publicity
Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said if the authors of the
statement had understood simple English, and taken the pains to engage
in deep thinking and contextualised the comments, they would not have
rushed to the press to ask the President to resign.
The statement read, ‘’What President
Buhari was saying, which was lost on those who issued that jejune
statement, is that only his love and passion for the country could have
made him, at his age, to come out of retirement to seek the office of
President, over 30 years after he presided over the affairs of the
country.
‘’For 16 years, Nigerians gave the PDP
the benefit of the doubt to move the country forward, but instead, the
party put Nigeria in reverse gear at a high speed, spinning it towards a
doomsday that was only averted when Nigerians showed the PDP the red
card. This is what necessitated President Buhari to continuously seek
the country’s highest political office, so he can help put the country
on a forward march again.
“If the country had been well managed,
President Buhari would not at 72 be crisscrossing the whole world
seeking solution to Nigeria’s problems.”
The APC said within three weeks of his
inauguration, President Buhari had succeeded in returning Nigeria to the
comity of nations, to such an extent that world leaders are now so
eager to engage him on how to assist the country in key areas, including
security and the fight against corruption.
“Within three weeks of President
Buhari’s inauguration, he has done what the PDP government could not do
in six years: Invigorate the fight against Boko Haram by rallying a
regional and global front against the terror group,” the APC said.
Source: Punchng
