The Presidency has taken the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the cleaner over the various statements it issued and published in the media, with the latest that personalized attacks on President Muhammadu Buhari.
A statement by the senior special assistant to the President on medaia and publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, described what he called unnecessary attack on the administration as having crossed the line in a democracy, saying: “a call for disobedience to government is a call to anarchy and should not be called opposition politics.”
He said that because the PDP is heading to the elections in tatters, regretting that for the party to be seeking to bring down the roof on everyone is tragic, selfish and the height of desperation. Malam Garba Shehu, who said that the good thing is that these acts do not reflect the true feeling of citizens across the whole nation, said that is the PDP is sinking deeper and deeper into the oblivion.
“They are losing memberships in droves and their campaign is just a caricature of a proper campaign. It is high time Nigerians separated the chaff floating around in the air in the name of opposition from the crude and disgraceful invective being thrown personally at President Muhammadu Buhari.
“The problem of the opposition is that they are not talking about solutions. Rather, each of them, led in the pack by the PDP is an expert at counting problems. That is the reason why the voting population is coming around the Buhari-led All Progressive s Congress,APC.
“For years, the PDP had been a bastion of corruption and impunity and it is difficult for them to change from their rentier way if life in the nation’s affairs. But CHANGE has come, and has come to stay.”