The main opposition People’s Democratic Party, PDP has told the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC to stop looking for those to blame for its failure saying the Presidency is being haunted by its many failures,
Recall that the President, through his spokesman, Femi Adesina, had weekend raised the alarm, saying that some unnamed traducers were panning a smear campaign against the President and his policies.
Specifically, Adesina had said the alleged smear campaign was targeted at the President’s perceived ethnic and religious favouratism in critical appointments and official policies.
But in a statement on Sunday by the spokesman for the PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan, the party advised President Buhari to stop pleading with Nigerians to award him an unmerited pass mark.
The party said that such plea in the face of the manifest failures of the administration amounted to an assault on the sensibilities of Nigerians and an attempt to corrupt the records.
The statement reads in part: “It is clear that the Buhari-led APC administration is plagued by all-round failure in governance. If indeed it has any record of success in any sector, Mr. President would not be begging Nigerians, even in his home state, Katsina and among his party members, to award him a pass mark.
“It is however absurd that President Buhari is still pleading for an undeserved pass mark when his administration has plunged our nation into the worst economic crisis, wrecked our productive sectors, borrowed from all corners of the world, stagnated our infrastructure, elevated corruption, allowed APC leaders to loot and stash away over N15trillion from our national coffers, while leaving bandits, terrorists, kidnappers to continue to ravage our nation.
“If the Buhari-led APC administration had done well, will the APC be going about orchestrating a membership revalidation and begging people to award it fictitious pass marks?”
The statement further said that President Buhari’s approval rating has fallen so low that even members of his party, the APC, have abandoned him to seek for direction and leadership elsewhere.
“The situation is so bad that barely two years into his four years and final tenure, leaders of his party, the APC, are already searching frantically for his replacement with some of them already commencing campaign activities.
“It is rather appalling that instead of facing reality, the Buhari Presidency is threatening Nigerians and overheating the polity will allegations of plots to wage a “smear campaign” against President Buhari in unnamed online newspapers.
“Such allegation is only symptomatic of a failed administration that is looking for who to blame for its woes. This is more so as any fair appraisal of the Buhari-led APC will only present a litany of failures and woes
“We however hope that this allegation is not a ploy for a renewed clampdown on the media and dissenting voices, particularly those now arising among well-meaning APC leaders, who are completely disenchanted by the incompetence and corruption inherent in their party and its administration.
“In any case, President Buhari and his APC should know that Nigerians have moved on and cannot be swayed again by false performance
