The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday urged the British Prime Minister, Thresa May to “use her state visit to Nigeria to uncover the dismal state of our nation by resisting a choreographed plan by the Buhari Presidency to hoodwink her for an endorsement stunt.”
PDP urged the British leader not to allow the “Buhari Presidency to confine her to the palours of the Presidential Villa, but to insist on
visiting other parts of the nation to enable her directly appreciate the
level of lies and false performance indices the Federal Government
has been dishing out to the world.”
A statement by PDP’s spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan said
“This is particularly as we have been made aware of plans by the Federal Government to use the visit to dish out more lies to the international community in an effort to cover its failures in governance in the last three years, for which Nigerians are clamouring for a new president under the PDP.
“We charge the British Prime Minister, as a parliamentarian, to take the Buhari Presidency to task on its unabated interferences and violent attacks on the institution of the National Assembly, including
threats to forcefully remove the elected presiding officers of the
Senate, as well as the recent invasion and blockade of the National Assembly by Presidency-controlled security forces.”The opposition party urged the “British leader to task President
Buhari on his widely condemned stand against the supremacy of the
rule of law in addition to records of violation of human rights in Nigeria, including government’s disobedience to court orders, reported extra-judicial killings, torture, unlawful political arrests and detention, restriction of free speech and media freedom and lack of government’s accountability as detailed in report by various international bodies, including Transparency International (TI), Amnesty International (AI) and US Department of States.“The British leader should also elicit discussions with the President on the recent report by Price Waterhouse Cooper showing humongous corruption in his administration, including the circumstances surrounding the N4 trillion unremitted oil money in agencies under his direct supervision as minister.
“Finally, we urge the Prime Minister May, to engage President Buhari on the violent rigging of elections under his watch, and extract commitment from him on his administration’s preparedness for a free, fair and credible general elections in 2019, especially as there are apprehensions across Nigeria, that his actions, utterances and body language suggest otherwise.”
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