2019: Buhari's New Year message will be empty promises - PDP
- President Buhari is expected to deliver a new year message to Nigerians on Tuesday, January 1, 2019
- According to the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, Buhari should not bother with any New Year message
- The organisation said the president has nothing to offer Nigerians after his promise of more hardship in the coming year
The PDP Presidential Campaign Organization (PPCO) says President Muhammadu Buhari should not bother with any New Year message, stating that the president has nothing to offer Nigerians after his promise of more hardship in the coming year.
President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to deliver a new year message to Nigerians on Tuesday, January 1, 2019.
PPCO insists Buhari's message will be a rehash of fake promises, adding that President Buhari has already admitted failure in governance.
The campaign organisation in a statement sent to Legit.ng on Sunday, December 30, by its director, media and publicity, Kola Olgbodiyan, said the president has no solutions to the problems bedeviling the country.
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Ologbodiyan said Buhari will only dwell on fictitious claims and cosmetic patriotism, “in an effort to sway Nigerians and divert their attention from his failures and insensitivity to their problems.”
He continued: “In case Mr. President considers the New Year message, a ritual which he must fulfill, he should use the occasion to provide answers to the allegations that he soiled his hands in the alleged corrupt acquisition of Etisalat Nigeria and Keystone Bank PLC by members of his family under the official cover of his presidency.
“No New Year message would be more apt than Mr. President explaining how his family members came about the sum of N1.032 trillion for this scandalous acquisition.
“Furthermore, President Buhari should use his New Year message, if any, to clear the issues of the alleged forgery of his WAEC certificate, alleged looting of N33 billion meant for the welfare of Internally Displaced Persons and the diversion of the repatriated $322 million by agents of his Presidency, under the guise of sharing the fund to the poor.
“President Buhari may also wish to use the occasion to provide answers for the false performance claims in his 2019 budget speech that led to his being booed by federal legislators.
“Moreover, instead of harping on his discredited war against corruption, President Buhari should use his New Year message to explain the whereabouts of the over N11 trillion that disappeared from government coffers under his watch, including the N9 trillion detailed in the leaked memo at the NNPC, which his administration has refused to account for.”
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The PPCO said if Buhari fails to answers its posers, “he should not bother sending any New Year message as the nation has moved beyond mere rhetoric, blame game and false promises, which have been the hallmarks of his administration."
Meanwhile, a spokesman of the PPCO, Buba Galadima, recently alleged that there are plans to arrest National Assembly members who booed Buhari during the presentation of the 2019 budget proposal on Wednesday, December 19.
Galadima, while addressing journalists in Abuja on Sunday, December 23, said the presidency has directed security agencies to start compiling names of lawmakers who jeered the president to be arrested.
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