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Monday, 29 June 2015

Expdonaloaded News; Buhari needs our prayers –PDP

In spite of the admonition by President Muhammadu Buhari that the time was not ripe enough to appraise his administration, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has passed its damning verdict.
The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, in a statement dismissed the APC-led Federal Government 30 days in office as motion without movement.
Metuh called for prayers for the Buhari administration, as he claimed that it had lost its bearing and lacked the capacity to address the challenges of governance, a scenario which he noted did not augur well for the polity.
Metuh submitted that the enormity of the confusion surrounding the government and the party in the last one month makes “it imperative for Nigerians to pray as the success or failure of the Buhari administration would not only affect the President and his party but also the entire nation.
The statement read in part: “We urge Nigerians to join hands in prayers and offer useful suggestions to President Muhammadu Buhari and the APC because with what we have seen in the last 30 days, the present administration is finding it very difficult to get its bearings right while showing no inclination towards implementing its numerous campaign promises for which they were voted into office at the centre.
“We are deeply worried that the president, who promised to unveil his cabinet two weeks after his inauguration, has not been able to decide on key appointments such as ministers, Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), a Chief of Staff and advisers in key sectors of the economy.
“This is more so as the delay has brought government business in ministries, departments and agencies to a dangerous standstill with coordination of important policies vested on ministers and the SGF now in tatters while the system drifts.
“This situation also creates loopholes through, which overzealous persons around the president can connive with unscrupulous elements in the bureaucracy to siphon public resources in addition to possibly misleading the president to violate due process by spending beyond and outside his statutory limits.
“The situation is taking its toll on the economy, which has in the 30 days witnessed unprecedented decline with a terrifying crippling of foreign and domestic investments including activities in the money and capital market sectors.post by expdonaloaded.blogspot.com..
“Under President Buhari, the stock market has lost over N238 billion while the All-Share Index fell by 849.87 basic points as at June 19.
“In security, apart from the directive to relocate the counter terrorism command centre to Borno State and seeking assistance from foreigners, no other concrete step has been taken in the fight against insurgency, which the president in his April 22, 2015 CNN interview promised to end within his two months in office.
“Instead, the anti-terrorism effort has completely lost steam in the last 30 days, with insurgents, who had already been pushed to the verge of surrender in the Sambisa forest by the Goodluck Jonathan administration, now surging back and spreading into the country.
“In this regard, we urge the president to confront insurgency and issues of national security with all the vigour they deserve while calling for restrain from actions capable of destroying the fabrics of security intelligence. We also urge for adequate respect for all organs of internal security such as the Directorate of State Security (DSS), which is answerable to the Nigerian state and as such should not be publicly ridiculed by an aide of the president.
“In the same vein, we are disturbed by the ominous signals emanating from the atrocious attempt by the APC to undermine and appropriate the federal legislature resulting in the disruption of lawful proceedings and forced closure of the National Assembly, the symbol of our collective national identity as a democratic state.
“In this direction, we urge the Presidency and the APC to imbibe democratic tenets and respect the independence of that arm of government.
“Finally, while we remind the President and the APC that their campaign promises are bonds which must be fulfilled, we urge him to use the next 10 days to set up his government by naming his ministers, the SGF and advisers in critical sectors as Nigerians did not vote for a sole administrator but for a democratic government.”