The immediate past deputy national chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, has charged All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Federal Government, headed by President Muhammadu Buhari, to desist from causing more problems for the country.
He also advised the party and President Buhari to tackle the myriad of problems it had already created.
In a statement made available to the media in Abuja, on Tuesday, he noted that rather than striving to address the major socio-economic issues weighing down Nigerians, “due to the confusion and lack of direction of the government in the last one year, the APC is rather busy creating more battlefronts and compounding the challenges of the country.”
He added that “today, under APC leadership, the country has become a whole theatre of acrimony, with agitations here and there and no clear sign of solution in sight, forcing political watchers to question if the country is disintegrating.
“Even the Boko Haram issue that was supposed to be progressing well has run into troubled waters, because of the confusion in the ruling party.
“Ditto the Federal Government’s anti-corruption fight, which is even skewed due to insincerity, as ministers already confirmed to be corrupt internationally continue to move untouched while governors with immunity are harassed daily.
“Rather than confront the various challenges overwhelming the country, APC is currently bleeding, soaked in its own greed and the obvious consequence is that a house divided against itself is bound to fall and the party is already falling.”
The former acting national chairman of the PDP said the Federal Government under Buhari’s watch was gradually eroding all indices of democratic principles, especially those anchored on the rule of law and separation of power, as it had continued to violate all rules of free speech as enshrined in our status.
He advised Buhari to respect various organs of governance and “stop seeing himself as the Lord Mayor of state governors and the National Assembly, as this will amount to dictatorship.”
According to Secondus, while the Federal Government created more and more problems, it left unattended to, very critical projects.
“For example, after the hype created by the government on the clean-up of Ogoniland, nothing is happening on the project while Governor Nyensom Wike massive opening up of Ogoni roads neglected over the years is evident,” he observed.
