National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, on Thursday berated the administration of President
Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC), asking the president to
sit up and solve the multifaceted problems plaguing the country as Nigeria may
soon slide into insolvency and become a failed state.
The PDP national chairman also said Nigeria is
sitting on a keg of gunpowder and a time bomb that could explode any moment.
Also, Secondus called on President Buhari to go a
step forward as it did in the reduction of the price of petrol, and reduce the
current rate of the Valued Added Tax (VAT) of 7.5 percent to the former rate of
five percent.
Addressing a world press conference at the party
national secretariat tagged: ‘Time to Act is now’, Secondus said: "The
facts are indisputable that President Buhari-led APC administration has
woefully failed the people of Nigeria. This is a general consensus across this
great country. No segment of our nationhood is in good shape as we speak."
According to him, "The economy is in a dire
state as the country heads toward insolvency, occasioned by huge unserviceable
debts and the crash of oil price," adding that Nigerians continues to live
in fear as its security situation worsens and remains unabated.
Secondus explained that "PDP is trying to
underscore a loud point that this country is seating on a time bomb, and we
must not allow it to explode.
"We in PDP have our genuine fears that this
government and its managers lack the needed capacity to lift us out of the wood
because we got into it due to their incapacity.
"But that notwithstanding, the regime should
be sensitive to the plight of the suffering masses of the country by reviewing
downwards various draconian policies like the various tax regimes especially
the Value Added Tax (VAT) that affects every good and service."
The national chairman of the party described the
government approach to the scourge of the global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic
and soot pollution in Rivers State as lackluster, stating that the response is an
invitation to disaster.
According to Secondus, "The COVID-19 ravaging
the world has thrown up fresh challenges for leaders across the globe. While we
watch and admire leaders rise to the challenge elsewhere, the reverse is the
case in our country. Nigerians are yet to hear or see their president rise to
the emergency, and unfortunately too, officers on duty have not enjoyed the
needed political will.
"We forbid a serious situation were the president
in his characteristic manner would say he is not aware of the virus.
“Also, a very outstandingly sad situation is the Nigerian Government response to last
weekend pipeline explosion disaster in Lagos State," calling for a minute
silence for those who died in the Abule- Ado explosion.
The PDP leader urged the APC-led federal government
to avoid adding insult to injury with its reckless and lawless attitude to
human rights issues which he alleged had worsen the situation and exposed the
country to further ridicule.
In view of this, the national chairman of PDP said:
"Consequently, at this hour of peril to our country, PDP is calling upon
President Buhari to wake up and give Nigeria a firm, purposeful, consultative
and all-inclusive leadership.
"Our party is of the firm conviction that our
problems can be successfully resolved if there is a fair and effective
leadership at the top. It is now time to give this leadership or give way to
capable hands."
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