PDP Backs Abaribe’s Call on Buhari to Resign

Chuks Okocha

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday said it totally supports the call by the Senate Minority Leader, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, on the President Muhammadu Buhari to resign over his supposed inability to curtail the rising insecurity in the country.

The PDP National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, made this known during an interactive session with journalists in Abuja.

Secondus said it was imperative for the President to declare a state of emergency on insecurity, adding that bad governance was the cause of the rising insecurity of lives and property in some parts of Nigeria as well as unemployment and abject poverty.

He accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of retarding national development and fuelling insecurity, unemployment, and economic retardation through bad policies.

He said, “In the last four years of the current regime, we can see that good governance has been a terrible challenge for this country. What we have experienced now is a direct dictatorship by the APC government.

“The lack of good governance in our country is the cause of the insecurity, underdevelopment and the suffering of the masses. As a result, the economy has collapsed regardless of whichever way the government is carrying on with its propaganda.

“We can see the judgment from the international community, the Transparency International, has just endorsed that this country presently is more corrupt than ever and so where are we heading to?”

He stated that the PDP supports Abaribe over his call for the APC government to resign.