The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as a product of poor
thinking and deliberate mischief the statement credited to the
so-called PDP Media Watchdog asking President Muhammadu Buhari to resign because of his comments over his age.
In
a statement issued in Lagos on Wednesday by its National Publicity
Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said if the authors of the
statement had understood simple English, taken the pains to engage in
deep thinking and contextualized the comments, they would not have
rushed to the press to ask the President to resign.
”What
President Buhari was saying, which was lost on those who issued that
jejune statement, is that only his love and passion for the country
could have made him, at his age, to come out of retirement to seek the
office of President, over 30 years after he presided over the affairs of
the country.
”For 16 years, Nigerians gave the PDP the benefit
of the doubt to move the country forward, but instead, the party put
Nigeria in reverse gear at a high speed, spinning it towards a doomsday
that was only averted when Nigerians showed the PDP the red card. This
is what necessitated President Buhari to continuously seek the country’s
highest political office, so he can help put the country on a forward
march again. Nothing else matters, not for him the excitement of an
office he previously held and the quest for personal accomplishment.
If
the country had been well managed, President Buhari will not at 72 be
crisscrossing the whole world seeking solution to Nigeria’s problems, it
said.
APC said within three weeks of his inauguration, President
Buhari has succeeded in returning Nigeria to the comity of nations, to
such an extent that world leaders are now so eager to engage him on how
to assist his country in key areas, including security and the fight
against corruption.
”Within three weeks of President Buhari’s
inauguration, he had done what the PDP government could not do in six
years: Invigorate the fight against Boko Haram by rallying a regional
and global front against the terror group. Today, the US has pledged to
give $5 million
for the fight against Boko Haram, in addition to
other materialsupport. This is apart from the support that has been
pledged by the
G-7 for Nigeria’s efforts to quell the insurgency.
”Thanks
to President Buhari’s shuttle diplomacy, the Multi-National Joint Task
Force (MNJTF) that the PDP government could not bring together for all
of six years is ready to deploy next month, while the President has
ordered the release of $21 million to facilitate the establishment of
the headquarters of the force in N’Djamena, Chad.
”Since assuming
office about three weeks ago, President Buhari has visited Chad, Niger,
Germany and South Africa, winning support and friends for Nigeria all
over again and returning the country to the comity of respected nations.
Those who were put off by the PDP government’s resort to politicizing
the fight against Boko Haram – even as the insurgents grew stronger –
are now joining President Buhari to battle the terrorists. In no distant
future, the results of his tireless efforts will begin to show.
”On
the domestic front, President Buhari has been handling pressing issues
far away from the klieg light, and his efforts to assembly a first class
team to implement his change mantra, which he is personally driving,
are continuing apace. We in the APC, and we are sure most unbiased
Nigerians, are very proud of President Buhari and the vigour he has
shown in governance, the kind of vigour we did not see in the immediate
past administration that was presided over by a far younger man,” the
party said.
It said only anarchists and non-democrats will ask a
President who has not spent one month in office to resign, adding: ”It
rankles when those making these calls are from the ranks of the party
that failed to avail itself creditably in 16 years.”
APC said it
has deliberately refused to join issues with the PDP, which has been
issuing a series of insipid press statements that showed clearly that
the party is not ready to provide a robust opposition to the APC-led
federal government
”For the umpteenth time, we say that the PDP
and its satellite bodies must realize that in order to be relevant,
credible and to make the necessary impact, they must pick on real issues
and articulate them intelligently, rather than latching on to trite
matters. This very amateurish display won’t get them anywhere,” the
party said.
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