For 16 Years, No Savings, No Power, No Road, No Security - President Buhari Tells PDP

President Muhammadu Buhari is obviously not done
with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as he hit the
party again monday, dismissing its 16 years in the
saddle as extremely wasteful and of no moment.
‘‘I want Nigerians to realise that what this
government inherited after 16 years of the PDP
government was no savings, no infrastructure, no
power, no rail, no road and no security,” he told
journalists in his Daura hometown after the Eid-el-Kabir
celebrations.
The attack, which came through a statement by his
Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam
Shehu Garba, is the second within two days of efforts to
explain the nation’s economic recession that has
imposed harsh economic conditions on the vast
majority of Nigerians, many of whom are now grumbling
loudly, asking the president and his administration to
deliver more quickly on the change he promised them
during electioneering.
The president had in an Eid-el-Kabir message on
Sunday blamed the recession on the global economic
downtown and lack of savings by preceding
administrations.
“The present recession is as a result of cumulative
effects of worldwide economic downturn and failure in
the past to plan and save for difficult times,” he had
explained.
His comment had attracted a strong rebuke from the
PDP which told him to stop grumbling and face up to
his task of reviving the economy.
“The president and his APC were elected to further
better the lots of Nigerians, and not to dish out
constant complaints on the situation which they
mindlessly created not minding the attendant
consequences of their actions on our collective
destinies,” the PDP’s National Publicity Secretary,
Prince Dayo Adeyeye, said in a direct reference to the
president’s message, adding: “It is, therefore, high time
they stopped this unnecessary grumbling and
concentrate on how to redeem our economy by
providing good governance to the people