The Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) has lent it’s voice to the tirades of opposition to President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent statement where he described Nigerians calling for restructuring of the country as ignorant.
The party in a reaction from the office of its Zonal Publicity Secretary, Chief Sanya Atofarati yesterday, said the president erred in judgement of the real situation in the country by throwing away in one swell hoop the genuine agitation of the people he governs.
According to the statement; “It is quite unfortunate that a democratically elected president of Nigeria at this age and time lacks the finesse and continental language that would hold together a fragmented country under his watch especially the genuine agitation of his citizens for restructuring of the system which has turned Nigeria into a banana republic, a cattle colony and poverty capital in the whole world”.
“The least that the good people of Nigeria are asking for is a return to constitutional democracy, equity, fairness and a genuinely people’s Constitution but we have a sitting all-knowing president who claims to have a monopoly of knowledge of what is best for the country while millions other Nigerians including eminent citizens are ignorant and bunch of misguided agitators”.
“Nigerians should be reminded that a PDP government in 2014, invoked a national dialogue which proffered solutions to many of the nagging national questions that are bedeviling the nation now but Buhari’s government in 2015, decided to keep the monumental document in the dust bin to gather dust”.
What other evidence do we need to conclude that this President does not want a united country even as his actions and inactions have exercerbated the tendencies for ethnic tensions by groups singing “To your tent, O Israel”, the statement concluded.
