• PDP urges Nigerians to pray for govt
The Presidency said last night that it will take time to
clear the mess created by the Goodluck Jonathan
administration, contrary to the call by the Peoples
Democratic Party ( PDP ) that Nigerians need to pray for
the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari .
PDP National Publicity Secretary Olisah Metuh made
the call in his 30- day appraisal of the Buhari
administration.
The Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the
President, Mr. Femi Adesina, in a statement , said
Nigerians were already on the side of the
administration, which he noted was on course .
“ It requires scrupulous and painstaking planning to
clean the PDP ’s Augean Stable , ” Adesina said , adding :
“ It is amusing to read what the National Publicity
Secretary of the defeated Peoples Democratic Party
( PDP ) , Olisa Metuh, considers a 30 days appraisal of
the President Muhammadu Buhari administration.
“ He wants Nigerians to join hands in prayers for the
government, so that things would begin to move . What
he does not know is that Nigerians had long formed
such coalition . They are hands in hands, and that was
what gave victory to President Buhari in the March 28,
2015 poll.
“ They had teamed up to uproot an administration that
had brought the country to her knees , and was about
to tip her off the precipice . And Nigerians have
resolved that never would they allow any government
to divide them along regional, religious and ethnic fault
lines again .
“ The Buhari administration is naturally contemplative
because there was absolutely no rhyme or reason to
the way PDP ran the country , particularly in the
immediate past dispensation . That is why the Augean
Stable is being cleaned now , and it requires scrupulous
and painstaking planning . ”
Stressing that national life was devalued across all
sectors under PDP , Adesina said : “ And it takes
meticulousness and sure -footedness to repair all the
breaches. This, the Buhari administration will deliver.
“ Metuh talks of people around the President conniving
with bureaucrats to syphon money from the treasury .
This must be deja vu , as it was the pastime of the
immediate past administration, and the enormity of the
sleaze will be evident when stolen money , to the tune
of billions of dollars , is recovered , and returned to the
national treasury soon. ”
He said that only time will offer Nigerians the
opportunity to compare the current administration with
the past in order to know which one has come to serve
the people.
He said : “ In the process of time, after all that is being
planned by the current administration has matured, and
bearing fruits , Nigerians will be able to determine who
is serving them acceptably, and who has taken them
for a ride . It is just a matter of time.
“ Meanwhile, Metuh and his masters can only rue the
missed opportunities to make salutary impact on the
lives of Nigerians . They have a long road of regrets to
travel. ”
A statement yesterday by Metuh noted that the
enormity of the confusion surrounding the government
and the ruling party in the last one month had made 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 said : “ 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) , 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
syphon 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 sector ,
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. Under President Buhari , the
stock market has lost over N238 billion while the All -
Share Index fell by 849 . 87 basis 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.
“ 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. ”
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