The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has thrown its weight behind the Senate Minority Leader, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe’s call for President Muhammadu Buhari to resign because he has allegedly failed to tackle insecurity in the country.
The National Chairman of the party, Prince Uche Secondus, gave this position in an interactive session with the media in Abuja on Wednesday night, asserting that the president has been overwhelmed by the situation.
He maintained that the main opposition party will resist any attempt to keep it silent and as well called on the media to speak up instead of relying on government propaganda.
While noting the deteriorating security situation in the country, Secondus said: “More people are suffering, the unemployment rate has gone to the highest in the country, the insecurity is such that you can no longer travel by road from Abuja to Kaduna. That’s a typical example. Even the train is now threatened.
“So, we are in total support if the minority leader’s position in the Senate that called for the President to resign because he has failed.
“He is overwhelmed by the security challenges and so the PDP backs the minority leader’s position that if we can’t secure lives and properties, which is the first charge of any government, then with honour, it is only in this black country, in the black world that people don’t like to take the right step. It is not humiliating for anyone to say, I have tried my best, I can no longer go forward, let somebody else come and try.
“We are not calling for government to collapse, but if the president can no longer assure the population of Nigerians that they are safe, and a typical example and to crown it all, is that people no longer have the right to vote and be safe.
“And so we want to plead with our brothers, the media, those who are here and those who are outside here, media executives, owners of media houses and electronic media, that unless they rise to the occasion and stand with the ordinary people, the country cannot move forward,” he added.
Secondus observed that governance has been challenging to the present administration in the past four years, noting that government under the All Progressive Congress (APC) has turned the nation into a dictatorship.
He further said: “As we can see and observed in the last four years of the current regime, we can see that issues of good governance have been a terrible challenge for this country.
“What we have experienced now is a direct dictatorship by the APC government. The lack of good governance in our country is the cause of the insecurity, is the cause of the underdevelopment, is the cause of the suffering of the masses and the press cannot keep quiet neither will we and the other political parties keep quiet.
“They may try to silence us but we will resist it.
“As a result, the economy has collapsed whichever way the government is carrying on with its propaganda.
“We can see the judgement of the international community. Transparency International has just endorsed that this country presently is more corrupt than ever and so, where are we heading to?
