The Peoples Democratic Party,
PDP, on Thursday lamented that President Muhammadu Buhari’s inability to
“productively engage British Prime Minister, Theresa May,” was “directly
bungling our nation’s opportunity to draw maximum economic dividends from her
visit before she left the shores of our country.”
PDP lamented that Buhari could
not “assemble a competent economic team to engage the British leader.”
In a statement issued by PDP’s
spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan, the party expressed concern that Buhari could
not consider it “expedient to muster a team for strategic engagement with
German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, who is billed to commence a state visit to
our nation.”
The statement reads, “It is
indeed unfortunate and completely unpatriotic that instead of thinking of ways
to draw economic dividends from the important state visits, President Buhari is
rather more interested in using them to secure international endorsements for
his selfish re-election bid.
“We all saw a British Prime
Minister who was favourably disposed to a healthy and productive engagement on
critical areas of our economy and how President Buhari and his officials, out
of sheer incompetence, failed to seize the opportunity for the benefit of our
nation.
“Instead, the Buhari Presidency
was more interested in photo-ops and diplomatic niceties, perhaps to score
cheap political points, indicative of how our Presidency has diminished in the
last three years.
“The robust and very fruitful
engagement the British leader later had with Kenyan President, Uhuru Kenyatta,
shows how low, the standard of national leadership has fallen in our country
under the Buhari Presidency.”
The opposition party, therefore,
urged the Buhari Presidency to “stop being a cog in the wheel of progress for
the nation.”
“President Buhari should
immediately end this government lethargy and seek help in setting up a team
comprising of very competent and knowledgeable hands to interface with the
German Chancellor and her team so that Nigeria will benefit from her visit.
“We caution President Buhari not
to seek to use the visit of the German leader for another lame attempt at
international endorsement, which has continued to elude him, while attracting
embarrassing backlashes to the nation.
“Moreover, such is no longer
useful for him, as Nigerians and the international community have already
reached a consensus that our dear nation needs a more competent and resourceful
President, who has respect for rule of law and the overall interest of the
people,” the statement added.
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