The Buhari Media Organisation on Tuesday, March 15, stated that President Muhammadu Buhari was right in describing the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as a haven for mismanagement and corruption, arrogance of power and self-aggrandisement.
According to the group, attempts by the former ruling party to make itself look good in the eyes of the public is only self-serving and akin to ‘campaigning after the election’.
The group said in a statement signed by its Chairman Niyi Akinsiju and Secretary Cassidy Madueke, that there are enough facts on the ground to show that the President was accurate in his description of the party.
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“We find it funny that the new PDP leadership again attempted to rewrite history in its response to the President’s rather apt description of 16 years of the party’s catastrophic rule.
“Here is a party that was so consumed with power that its leaders arrogantly told Nigerians that they would be in office forever. So President Buhari was right in admonishing members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to desist from the rambunctious behaviour that consumed PDP.
“It is indeed sad that inspite of suffering two consecutive electoral losses, the former ruling party is still arrogant enough to declare that it handed over a robust economy in 2015 when all Nigerians were witnesses to the unprecedented and unfortunate situation of 27 States being unable to pay workers salaries and retirees’ pensions inspite of trillions of naira in oil revenue.
“This was at a time the country had an oil boom yet was home to 112m people living in extreme poverty on 1 dollar (N160 at the time) a day, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
“It was also a period when the economy began to go on a free fall, yet Nigeria was spending $5bn annually on food importation with little or no effort to boost local food production capacity or improve on infrastructure”.
BMO added that President Buhari has since put the country on the path of sustainable growth in spite of harsh global economic realities.