Perform, stop offering unwarranted excuses, PDP to Buhari

Firstclass newsline learnt that the Peoples Democratic Party has asked
President Muhammadu Buhari to live up to his electoral promises and
stop offering excuses.
It, therefore, described as evasive, diversionary and preemptive, the
present government's pile up of excuses for what the former ruling
party said it foresaw as possible failure in delivering on its
campaign promises to Nigerians.
The PDP, which ruled the country for 16 years, said it was unfortunate
that President Buhari and the All Progressives Congress, who it said
were privy to the nation's dwindling economy occasioned by global
economic downturn and fall in international oil price, even before the
start of the campaigns, chose to deceive Nigerians with bogus
promises, only to now resort to excuses after using the promises to
secure power at the centre.
PDP National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, stated this in a
statement in Abuja on Tuesday.
He said his party noted with dismay, President Buhari's statement on
Monday that Nigerians should not expect much from his first 100 days
in office on claims that he met "virtually an empty treasury and huge
debts," noting that such only underlines the fact that the present
administration is really not equipped to face the challenges of
governance.
The statement read in part, "While we restate our resolve to engage
only in credible and issue-based opposition, we want the President and
the APC to note that their plea for patience from Nigerians does not
arise, because ab initio, there has not been any indication that they
are actually serious and determined to deliver on their campaign
promises upon which they rode to power.
"Of course, Nigerians are willing to support and cooperate with the
President, but we are worried that the pictures emerging from his
presidency and his party do not in any way inspire hope in the
citizenry, especially as they have continued to show that theirs is
ostensibly a matter of obtaining power by false pretenses.
"President Buhari and the APC must know that Nigerians did not give
them the mandate to engage in frivolous excuses and pleas but to hit
the ground running with solutions and quick fixes they promised during
the campaigns."
Metuh said the statement by the President could be an admission of his
poor knowledge of national and international economics affairs.
He also asks if such statement underscores the lack of "capacity and
skills by the administration to effectively harness and galvanize
resources and potentials inherent in Nigeria, which has already been
nurtured as Africa's largest economy and one of the fasted growing in
the world.
"Even if Nigerians decide to wait endlessly, we wonder how much the
President can achieve amidst the flip-flops from his presidency and
cacophony of interests from his party leaders struggling to enlarge
their selfish political and economic frontiers.
"How can one reconcile President Buhari's statement with the recent
ridiculous and misleading claim by APC's National Publicity Secretary,
Alhaji Lai Mohammed, that this administration has achieved in three
weeks what the immediate past administration did not achieve in five
years?"
Metuh added that after the election victory, the APC and the President
have continued to expose their lack of commitment towards their
campaign promises.
He recalled that on May 5, 2015, President Buhari, at a meeting with
APC leaders in Abuja, opened the floodgates of excuses when he
expressed his nervousness to deliver in office, adducing that "Rome
was not built in a day."
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