THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the Democracy Day address by President Muhammadu Buhari as uninspiring and hollow.
The President also failed to address issues agitating the minds of Nigerians, a statement yesterday by PDP National Publicity Secretary Kola Ologbondiyan said.
According to the opposition party, the address was the worst since Buhari took office in 2015.
It added that it was garnished with a list of phantom projects and executive regurgitations, designed by his handlers to sway Nigerians and divert attention from the many failures of the administration.
The statement said: “The few Nigerians who bordered to listen to the address were miffed that in the most insensitive manner, Mr. President failed to show the littlest empathy to millions of citizens groaning under the worst form of poverty, starvation and economic hardship occasioned by his misrule.”
The party observed that the President’s aloofness to the plight of Nigerians was manifest in all the lines of the speech.
The PDP said: “In fact, no line in the supposed Democracy Day address had any inclination towards justice for victims of abuse of human rights, reported executive high-handedness, illegal arrests and detentions, extra-judicial executions as well as victims of killings and daily bloodletting in Benue, Taraba, Zamfara, Kaduna, Plateau, Borno, Kogi, Yobe and other parts of the country, by insurgents and marauders.
“Mr. President, on Democracy Day, had no words of assurance on the unrelenting violation of our constitution; assault on the National Assembly and erosion of personal freedom of citizens.”
The PDP similarly faulted the president address for failing to make any commitment towards the conduct of free, fair and credible general elections in 2019. It added that Buhari was apparently overwhelmed by the avalanche of his public rejection ahead of the polls.