Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, has attacked Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over comment on the extension of lockdown.
POLITICS NIGERIA reported the 14 days extension which was announced by Mr Buhari on Monday evening.
According to the President, the lockdown was necessitated by the increasing cases of COVID-19, which has been a global threat in recent times.
However, the PDP, in its reaction signed by Kola Ologbodiyan, said the President was being insensitive to the plight of the poor Nigerians who could barely survive during the initial two weeks lockdown imposed earlier.
The party posited that Buhari’s broadcast of Monday evening was “disappointing” because it excluded how it will cater for the vulnerable people in the society.
However, Mr Shehu, on Tuesday, stated that the opposition party has been fond of criticising the President’s actions unfairly.
He said: “Something must definitely be wrong with Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP) if they would-as they did yesterday- dismiss the important national broadcast by President Muhammadu Buhari as “disappointing,” a speech for which the European Union, through their Ambassador to Nigeria, congratulated the President, describing it as ‘‘a very powerful address to the nation last night.”
He said the PDP has opposed every single decision taken in the interest of national security by the Buhari administration.
“The week before, they celebrated a foreign leader who they invited to come and tutor President Muhammadu Buhari, an army General and a successful war commander, on how to fight Boko Haram terrorists.””This is a leader who has transformed the armed forces in the last five years and brought them to a respectable standing among nations,” he said.
The Presidential aide added: “PDP’s corruption and ineptitude allowed Boko Haram to occupy 18 local governments to be captured and millions to relocate. Nigerians have not forgotten and are waiting for them in 2023.”
“For a political party that led Nigeria for 16 years pursuing wrong policies and strategies that destroyed not only the armed forces but have destroyed the nation and its economy, there won’t be much from them to shock the citizens when they say that they see nothing good in the enormously successful war that the Buhari administration has waged against the COVID-19 global pandemic.”
He then advised that the PDP should make the choice of reconnecting with the people by joining this coalition and stopping the unnecessary distractions.
