The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Wednesday described President Muhammadu Buhari’s New Year message as completely uninspiring, tasteless, repetitive, vacuous, saying it failed to “galvanize any form of hope” for a despairing nation like Nigeria.
The party also asked Buhari to withdraw the “unnecessary remark” about his intention to stand down from the exalted seat in 2023, saying the President and the All Progressives Congress (APC) would have no other option than to leave office in 2023.
In a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, the party said President Buhari “should have the courage to issue a fresh new year message to show remorse for the corruption, incompetence, and misrule of his administration as well as admonish the APC against “its crass insincerity, violence and divisive machinations that have brought so much pain, anguish and despondency to our nation.”
The statement read: “President Buhari should stop presenting a picture as if he has the option to continue in office beyond 2023.
“The PDP holds, in total submission to the letter and spirit of 1999 Constitution (as amended), that it is not an issue of ‘standing down’ or not being ‘available’ for a future election, but a decided and inevitable position as contained in our constitution that he must quit office after two terms which will end in 2023. Mr. President, therefore, does not have any other choice before the law.
“Whether President Buhari likes it or not, he and his APC will exit the arena at the end of this tenure. History is replete with lessons from those who sought to stretch our nation beyond her limits.
