The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has once more challenged President Muhammadu Buhari to demand the immediate resignation of Rotimi Amaechi as the Minister of Transportation to demonstrate his (Buhari) touted integrity.
The party in a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan said as Minister of Transportation and Director-General of the Buhari Campaign Organisation, Amaechi is using government fund to campaign for Buhari.
The PDP noted that this action of Amaechi demonstrates the height of corruption, both in Buhari administration and the person of his campaign DG.
The party further wondered how Amaechi would compare failed President Muhammadu Buhari to the PDP candidate, Atiku Abubakar, who has been generally accepted as the next President of Nigeria, stressing that Amaechi has finally lost touch with Nigerians.
“If Amaechi has not lost touch with reality, how would he be comparing Atiku Abubakar, who is widely celebrated by Nigerians across board, due to his integrity and proven competence in managing resources, to a failed President Buhari, who Nigerians know is responsible for the grinding hardship, hunger, starvation and escalating insecurity in the nation in the last three and half years”, the party noted.
It went on: “How can Amaechi compare Atiku Abubakar, a known and tested nationalist, who has become the rallying point for national rejuvenation and reawakening to President Buhari, who has sunk the nation deeper into the sea of nepotism, divisiveness, dissensions and agonizing despondency?”
It further asked how any one would compare Atiku Abubakar, an ‘epitome of wealth creation and youth empowerment’ to President Buhari whose tenure, it said, would only be remembered by Nigerians for hardship, unemployment, job losses, wealth destruction, economic frustrations and destruction of institutions that engender good governance and freedom?
“Is it not an aberration to attempt to compare Atiku Abubakar, who played key role in a government that paid our nation’s foreign debt, to President Buhari, whose administration specializes in accumulating debts, borrowing money to service debts and plunging our generations yet unborn into bondage?
“How can Amaechi compare Atiku Abubakar, a promoter of democracy and fundamental human rights to President Buhari whose administration has stood down all known democratic virtues, and relishes in violation of human rights, disobedience to court orders, disdain for constitutional order and condoning extra-judicial killing, harassment and illegal detention of citizens as detailed in reports by international bodies”, the party queried.
While the PDP said it is a settled fact that President Buhari cannot be a match to Atiku Abubakar, it noted with understanding that “Amaechi’s frustration as a beleaguered salesman of a derelict product, should have known that for Nigerians, Atiku Abubakar represents light and a brighter future whereas President Buhari and his All Progressives Congress (APC) represent a national misfortune”.
Noting that Amaechi was aware of the murmurings and frustration even in the Presidency regarding President Buhari’s failures in governance, the party added that most of his ministers, aides and political associates no longer believe in his re-election since Atiku Abubakar emerged as PDP Presidential candidate.
It said it was on the basis of the foregoing that the PDP counsels Amaechi to “prepare to return to Rivers state to face his multiple corruption indictments instead of trying to promote a failed candidate”.
