PDP Tackles Buhari on Ministers’ Sack

Meanwhile, PDP described the sack of ministers as an attempt to cover the president’s failure in office.

In a statement by the PDP national publicity secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, the party said it was investigating the real reason behind the ministers’ sack given the president’s public approach to fighting corruption by “easing out” the culprits.

PDP asserted that the inefficiency of the Buhari administration was a product of his myopic and divisive approach to governance as well as the impunity and corruption deeply embedded in his government and party, the All Progressives Congress (APC).

PDP said even if the best hands were recruited, they would be contaminated by “incompetence, impunity, disregard for rules, divisiveness and corruption that have become the hallmark of the APC and its administration.”

The party called on Buhari and APC to note that Nigerians were not swayed by the sack of the ministers but “are eagerly awaiting the exit of the Buhari presidency and the APC come May 29, 2023, as there is no hope in sight under their purview.”

On its part, a civil rights advocacy group, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) urged Buhari to sack the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami; Minister of Defence, Major General Bashir Magashi (rtd); as well as the National Secretary Adviser, Major General Babagana Monguno (rtd.).

According to the group, the three ministers have failed in terms of containing the security challenges plaguing the nation.

National Coordinator of HURIWA, Emmanuel Onwubiko, disclosed this in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja

According to the HURIWA coordinator, "The Minister of Defence and the NSA to the President should be sacked. There is no doubt that students are constantly kidnapped and the security situation in Nigeria has become like a war situation and deteriorated almost to a point that the president is openly accused of undermining national security.

“The NSA should have been sacked about two years ago…

“The country has never had it so bad in terms of security threats. Borno, Katsina, Zamfara, Kaduna are all under the control of terrorists and even Nigerian Defence Academy was not spared of the disgraceful attacks by terrorists.

“The fact that the justice minister justified the illegal rendition and abduction by government of the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, (Nnamdi Kanu), from Nairobi, Kenya, means that the justice minister is grossly incompetent and unfit for that high office.”