{"id":34258,"date":"2021-01-01T20:10:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-01T20:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=34258"},"modified":"2021-01-01T17:21:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T17:21:56","slug":"buharis-new-year-address-empty-directionless-pdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/buharis-new-year-address-empty-directionless-pdp","title":{"rendered":"Buhari\u2019s new year address empty, directionless \u2013 PDP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Friday evening described President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s New Year address as empty and directionless.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, PDP said Buhari\u2019s address was a confirmation that Nigeria has become \u201cleaderless.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The party said it was appalling that on a New Year Day, all the president could offer \u201ca troubled and frustrated nation was a regurgitated script full of lame excuses and empty promises that address nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statement read: \u201cAs a President, Buhari has not demonstrated the capacity to play his own part, as he claimed, having failed to find a solution for the security and economic challenges that pervade our nation under his incompetent and lethargic watch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe myriads of lame excuses in Mr. President\u2019s address again underlines our national misfortune of weak leadership that is unable to resolutely confront and vanquish bandits, terrorists, kidnappers, and vandals who are now holding our nation hostage, ravaging our communities, kidnapping and beheading our compatriots without restrain.<\/p>\n<p><b>READ ALSO: Buhari rues 2020, promises better days ahead for Nigerians<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe least Nigerians expected from President Buhari in the New Year was a decisive will to tackle our security challenges by reviewing his parade and heeding the demands by Nigerians to rejig our nation\u2019s security architecture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>President Buhari addressed Nigerians on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>In the address, the president reviewed the performance of his administration in 2020 and outlined strategies to improve the nation\u2019s economy and address the prevailing insecurity in several parts of the country in the new year.<\/p>\n<p>Opinions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Friday evening described President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s New Year address as empty and directionless. In a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, PDP said Buhari\u2019s address was a confirmation that Nigeria has become \u201cleaderless.\u201d The party said it was appalling that on a New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":34257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,16,26],"tags":[1570,2140,778,254],"class_list":["post-34258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-parties","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-kola-ologbondiyan","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Buhari\u2019s new year address empty, directionless \u2013 PDP - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Friday evening described President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s New Year address as empty a ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/buharis-new-year-address-empty-directionless-pdp\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Buhari\u2019s new year address empty, directionless \u2013 PDP\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Friday evening described President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s New Year address as empty a ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/buharis-new-year-address-empty-directionless-pdp\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-01-01T20:10:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/01\/img-5fef5a19d17d4.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"650\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"332\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/buharis-new-year-address-empty-directionless-pdp#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/buharis-new-year-address-empty-directionless-pdp\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Buhari\u2019s new year address empty, directionless \u2013 PDP\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-01-01T20:10:44+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/buharis-new-year-address-empty-directionless-pdp\"},\"wordCount\":271,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/buharis-new-year-address-empty-directionless-pdp#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/01\/img-5fef5a19d17d4.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Kola Ologbondiyan\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Parties\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/buharis-new-year-address-empty-directionless-pdp#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/buharis-new-year-address-empty-directionless-pdp\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/buharis-new-year-address-empty-directionless-pdp\",\"name\":\"Buhari\u2019s new year address empty, directionless \u2013 PDP - 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