{"id":62393,"date":"2018-05-30T03:42:21","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T02:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=62393"},"modified":"2018-05-30T03:42:21","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T02:42:21","slug":"democracy-day-buharis-speech-hollow-full-of-false-claims-pdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/democracy-day-buharis-speech-hollow-full-of-false-claims-pdp\/","title":{"rendered":"Democracy Day: Buhari\u2019s Speech Hollow, Full Of False Claims- PDP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">\u2026Says 2018 Democracy Day, The Last For Buhari, APC<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) describes the Democracy Day address<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">by President Muhammadu Buhari as uninspiring, hollow, full of<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">self-praise and false performance claims, without addressing issues<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">agitating the minds of Nigerians.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The address, which is the worst since President Buhari took office in<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">2015, was garnished with a list of phantom projects and executive<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">regurgitations, inherently designed by his handlers to sway Nigerians<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">and divert attention from the many failures of this administration.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The few Nigerians who bordered to listen to the address were miffed<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">that, in the most insensitive manner, Mr. President failed to show the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">littlest empathy to millions of citizens groaning under the worst form<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">of poverty, starvation and economic hardship occasioned by his misrule.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">President Buhari&#8217;s aloofness to the plight of Nigerians is manifest in<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">all the lines of the speech.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">In fact, no line in the supposed Democracy Day Address had any<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">inclination towards justice for victims of abuse of human rights,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">reported executive high-handedness, illegal arrests and detentions,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">extra-judicial executions as well as victims of killings and daily<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">bloodletting in Benue, Taraba, Zamfara, Kaduna,Plateau, Borno, Kogi,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Yobe and other parts of the country, by insurgents and marauders.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Mr. President, on Democracy Day, had no words of assurance on the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">unrelenting violation of our constitution; assault on the National<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Assembly and erosion of personal freedom of citizens.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The President said nothing on the humonguous corruption going on under<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">his administration, where APC leaders and cabal at the Presidency have<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">stolen over N10 trillion, mainly from a sector under his direct<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">supervision.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">PDP also notes the fact that the President had no committing words<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">towards the conduct of free, fair and credible 2019 general elections,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">apparently overwhelmed by the avalanche of his public rejection ahead of<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">the polls.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Incredibly, Mr. President\u2019s handlers chose to subject him to a fantasy<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">trip, making false performance claims with phantom projects, muddling up<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">economic statistics and ended up worsening his already diminished public<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">perception.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">This is exactly why the PDP had earlier advised President Buhari not to<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">border to address Nigerians on Democracy Day.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The PDP notes that Nigerians have reached a consensus that the 2018<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Democracy Day celebration is the last for the Buhari Presidency and the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">APC. Our citizens have endured under the misrule of the APC, keeping<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">their hopes in the 2019 elections to get back our democracy on the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">platform of the repositioned PDP.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">In solidarity with Nigerians, the National Working Committee of the PDP<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">has already held a meeting where it reviewed the circumstances and will<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">formally address Nigerians on the issues of misrule of our nation in the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">last three years.<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026Says 2018 Democracy Day, The Last For Buhari, APC The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) describes the Democracy Day address by President Muhammadu Buhari as uninspiring, hollow, full of self-praise and&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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