By Ben Ogbemudia Abuja
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday described the President Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC) administration as “a perfect example of arrogance in failure”.
The PDP asserted that Buhari presides over “the most rudderless, corrupt, disunited, disorganised, arrogant political party and government in the history of country; a fact that is already established by Nigerians across board”.
In a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, the PDP said their position is predicated on the comments by President Buhari, “who in his lame attempt to address the irreconcilable infighting in his fizzling APC fixated on the PDP, apparently discomfited by the renewed massive popularity of the PDP among Nigerians ahead of the 2023 general elections”.
“The Buhari administration is a certified failure which has brought unprecedented economic hardship, chaos, escalated insecurity, a state of anomie and hopelessness in our country in the last six years.
“If Mr. President were ‘present’ as president and party leader, he should have known that the party that is “enfeebled and adrift”, plagued by ‘disunity, mismanagement and corruption”; “arrogance of power” and “self-aggrandizement” which he alluded to, is not the PDP but the evidently mismanaged and mutating crisis ridden APC.
“It is important to educate Mr. President on the arrogance of power in his refusal to timeously appoint an economic team or listen to wise counsel on the economy and security. This is why he completely mismanaged our national affairs and turned our nation into the poverty capital of the world and the third country with the highest level of terrorism, according to the World Terrorism Index.”
The PDP added, “Such arrogance of power is manifesting in President Buhari and APC’s refusal to accept failure for the near collapse of our economy from the $550 billion economy (largest in Africa and 26th globally) handed over to them in 2015 by the PDP; the fall of the naira from about N197 to a dollar to almost N600 today, and the hike in petrol price from N87 per litre in 2015 to between N300 and N400 per litre today.
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“In addition to this, the price of diesel which is a critical component in the productive sector of the economy now stands at inconceivable N700 per liter under the APC.
