-PDP says “corruption has become a way of life among Nigerians while Buhari plays the ostrich.”
Nigeria’s main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has insisted that President Muhammadu Buhari should save his face and resign considering growing allegations of corruption in federal agencies.
National chairman of the party, Prince Uche Secondus, who made the call in a media parley in Abuja, cited ongoing corruption investigations of the NDDC, MIC, NEDC, NSITF, EFCC and others, stating Nigeria, under Buhari’s watch, was on ventilator gasping for breath.
Secondus said “corruption has become a way of life among Nigerians while Buhari plays the ostrich.”.
He accused Buhari of abandoning his promise to fight corruption during electioneering campaigns in 2015 and 2019.
Prince Secondus, who describing situations in the country as frightening, said nothing brings out the exact character of the administration than the on-going fraud at the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).
He accused the forensic audit team meant to unearth alleged fraud at the NDDC of becoming accomplice to the crime, citing Senate indictment of the Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the Commission.
The party chairman lamented that corruption has become a bazar without any pretense with all critical agencies of government, including the anti-graft bodies themselves grossly engulfed in it.
“No attempt is being made from any corner to stem the freighting tide in our land. No effort is being made from any angle to halt the on-going free fall being witnessed in all fronts in the country. Nigerians have become helpless and have come to accept and live like citizens of nations without a leader and with no direction,” Secondus said.
The call for President Buhari to has been a recurring phenomenon, especially in recent times.
In January, this year, the PDP portrayed as a failed party, describing President Muhammadu Buhari’s comment expressing surprise at the high rate of insecurity in the country as defeatist, demoralizing and traumatizing.
The PDP had said that by this comment, the President displayed a disheartening dereliction of duty, directly admitted that he is overwhelmed and lacks the required capacity to articulate and implement any solutions to the escalated insurgency, banditry, kidnapping, bloodletting and increased wave of violence under his administration, and therefore demanded his resignation.
