Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned the All Progressive Congress (APC) government, led by President Muhammadu Buhari, for deceiving Nigerians to get to power, saying that it is shameful for the party to have promised the nation restructuring and renege on it.
The main opposition party in the country challenged Buhari and APC to immediately implement APC electioneering campaign promises including the immediate restructure of the country.
A statement signed by the party’s spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan said, “The PDP has challenged leaders of the discredited and fizzling APC to speak out on President Buhari’s decision to go back on their party’s campaign”.
The party also tasked APC leaders to respond to their members in the Senate who, through their spokesperson, Senator Ajibola Basiru, have declared that restructuring, as promised by APC, is only a “slogan”, as well as the revelation that neither the APC nor its leaders had submitted any memorandum for the promised restructuring and devolution of power upon which they rode to power in 2015″.
The Party stated,” It is very disappointing that almost six years after riding to power on the promise of restructuring, the Buhari residency has made no concrete effort towards forwarding an executive bill to the NASS on the matter, only to now ask Nigerians to carry their burden to the legislative houses”.
“Our party asserts that beside President Buhari, other bigger culprits of the failure on restructuring are the silent leaders of the APC who, despite promising restructuring, are clandestinely supportive of its huge betrayal. The APC must therefore take responsibility for on-going challenges to our national unity, having failed to fulfill the promises they made on restructuring such as devolution of power and true federalism”, it added.
The Party further added, “We are already aware of plots by certain APC leaders to recourse to condemning President Buhari as being singularly responsible for the failures of his administration and use such as narrative to beguile Nigerians again with another round of fake promises on restructuring. The PDP challenges the APC to counter our position by speaking out and urging President Buhari to immediately formulate an executive bill as well as taking steps, as a party, for a private member bill on the promised restructuring, as contained in its manifesto”.
