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“Nothing Positive Or New To Add” – Presidency Blasts PDP Over Buhari’s Visit To Lagos State
The presidency has accused the opposition Peoples Democratic Occasion (PDP) of making an attempt to attain low cost political factors with President Muhammadu Buhari’s current go to to Lagos State.
The Presidency in an announcement on Monday by the Senior Particular Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu once more accused the PDP of losing the nation’s assets throughout its 16 years rule.
Shehu within the assertion stated a part of the neglect witnessed underneath the PDP is what the Buhari authorities is making an attempt to appropriate with the commissioning of some army gadgets which the President did throughout his Lagos go to to Lagos on December 9.
Garba whereas justifying the President’s presence on the autobiography launch of Chief Bisi Akande stated it isn’t against the law for Buhari to have been current on the occasion, describing Akande as a buddy and democrat.
He questioned the PDP for spinning the narrative that President Buhari ignored the scene of current assaults in Kaduna, Niger, Sokoto and different locations to attend a frivolous ebook launch in Lagos, stating the President was in Lagos to fee army gear that can bolster the army’s onslaught towards bandits, terrorists and different criminals.
The Presidential spokesperson, subsequently, cautioned the PDP to cease spreading a deceptive narrative about Buhari’s go to to Lagos State.
The total assertion reads: “On ninth December in Lagos, President Muhammadu Buhari launched a made- in-Nigeria naval defence ship, NNS Oji, and inducted different important army belongings that enhance the nation’s capabilities to battle elevated piracy within the Gulf of Guinea. With the waters off the coast of Nigeria seeing elevated assaults – with 35 instances in 2020 – these new naval ships enter service on the most opportune time.
“Designed by Nigerians and constructed by Nigeria’s Naval Dockyard, the ships are the most important army vessels ever produced domestically. Key to President Buhari’s dedication to self-reliance as a nation and willpower to construct Nigeria into a producing energy, the ships pave the best way for building over time of bigger extra succesful warships. Sooner or later, Nigeria will transfer to turn out to be no extra an arms importer to a defence exporter.
“As well as, the President surveyed and inaugurated a naval helicopter that can be a part of the brand new vessels in scouting for and countering piracy that impedes safety and commerce.
“Whereas in Lagos the President additionally graced the launch of an autobiography by Bisi Akande – a pacesetter who performed an important function in protecting democratic opposition to army rule alive, and later a essential place within the improvement and supreme unity of that opposition to create at present’s APC.
“With out visionaries equivalent to Bisi Akande, the corrupt PDP and its acolytes who’ve completed a lot to strip our nation of its wealth, stunt its progress, and topic it to derogation overseas would nonetheless be in workplace.
“However, in fact, these within the PDP who don’t have anything constructive or new so as to add to the talk about the way forward for the nation search to trivialise the President’s Lagos go to: they select to disregard the essential launch of the naval vessels; they recommend the first purpose for going to Lagos was to attend a ebook launch.
“They attempt to make additional mileage by claiming the President shouldn’t have attended given the assault by bandits elsewhere within the nation that very same day.
“Ought to the president not have launched the naval ships the day after that assault? Ought to he take heed to the PDP who feign concern for these affected by banditry once they did nothing to fight it for many years – not on land or at sea? Ought to our famously austere President not attend a ebook launch of his buddy and fellow democratic opposition veteran when it coincided with a go to to Lagos to have a tendency the political views?
“By way of their assaults, the PDP reveal their priorities. After all, for many years, because the PDP loved their decadent events at others’ expense, the navy and the armed forces rotted by negligence.
“It’s famous they haven’t criticised the President for enhancing the nation’s seaborne defence capability. As a substitute, they solely handle to make the assault private. It reveals the chasm of distinction between a president who cares for the nation whereas managing to indicate courtesy to his comrades – and the opposition who corrupted the nation by the sharing out of its wealth whereas celebrating and splashing about stolen public cash.
“Sadly, these opportunistic opposition parts, in a determined seek for political factors, have dragged revered non secular leaders into the dialogue, feeding them deceptive data who’ve in flip used this distorted image to blackpaint the President within the eyes of gullible and harmless members of the general public.”
“Nothing Optimistic Or New To Add” – Presidency Blasts PDP Over Buhari’s Go to To Lagos State
