The Peoples Democartic Party has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to resign. The spokesperson and a member of the party’s National Caretaker Committee, Dayo Adeyeye,made the call yesterday through a statement which he issued in Abuja.
“Our call for the President to return the country to how he met it in 2015 and resign is justified on the following grounds.
“In 2015 when the President came to power, a bag of rice was selling at N7,000, but now, it is above N20,000; a ‘mudu’ of beans was N150 then and now, it is N500; one US dollar was then trading for N197 but now it is over N400.
“Also, a litre of fuel was N87 but now is N145; cost of transportation and other services had skyrocketed. Given our observations since the inception of this government, they have nothing to offer and as such, quitting will be a solution because nobody can give what he/she does not have. The APC has failed.”
Adeyeye called on Nigerians to recall President Buhari’s purported “body language” at the beginning of his administration and reiterated that governance “is a serious business and not about someone’s body language’ and de-marketing strategies of Mr. President while ‘globetrotting.”
Singling out the Finance Minister, Kemi Adeosun, Adeyeye made particular reference to a statement credited to Adeosun in which she described depression as “a mere word”.
“For the record, recession is characterised as a period of negative economic growth for two consecutive quarters, given rise to high rate of unemployment, fall in output, increase in government borrowing, etc, Adeyeye said.
“Following this understanding, Nigeria’s economy is already near depression. The crass ineptitude and lukewarm-attitude of this All Progressives Congress government is no longer tolerable, and therefore, we are calling on President Buhari and his team to return Nigeria to its state of booming economy before they assumed office in May, 2015, and then quit immediately to allow other capable leaders revive our ailing economy.”
Adeyeye added that “about three airlines, local and international, and some banks had allegedly suspended operations and sent their members of staff on an indefinite leave due to the poor state of Nigeria’s economy.”
Adding that the APC’s administration had frittered away all the good policies and programmes which the PDP put in place, thereby bringing down the aviation sector in the country amongst other catastrophes he said the Buhari led administration had caused.
This comes against the backdrop that President Buhari while in his Duara country home over the weekend, claimed that he inherited nothing from the PDP administrations of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Mallam Musa Yar’Adua and Dr. Goodluck Jonathan which ruled the country between 1999 and 2015.
