Buhari Needs Prayers To Deliver -PDP …We’re Cleaning PDP’s Augean Stable -Presidency

Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike (right) receiving a souvenir from State Chairman of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN),Apostle Zilly Aggrey, during the Women’s Day celebration service at Royal House of Grace International Church, Port Harcourt, yesterday.

After an evaluation of the first 30 days of President Muhammadu Buhari and All Progressives Congress’ administration, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says it has become obvious that Nigerians need to join hands in prayers to save the government from further inaction and dithering.
President Buhari assumed office on May 29, 2015.
The PDP said the call for prayers has become necessary given the fact that the Buhari administration is finding it difficult to locate its bearing and even take off and face the challenges of governance at the centre.
It described the last 30 days when Buhari took over as “30 days of all motion and no movement.”
The former ruling party said this scenario does not augur well for the polity.
PDP National Publicity Secretary, Mr. OlisaMetuh, in a statement in Abuja yesterday, said the enormity of the confusion surrounding the government and party in the last one month makes it imperative for Nigerians to pray as the success or failure of the Buhari administration will not only affect the President and his party but also the entire nation.
His statement said, “We urge Nigerians to join hands in prayers and offer useful suggestions to President Buhari and the APC because with what we have seen in the last 30 days, the present administration is finding it very difficult to get its bearings right while showing no inclination towards implementing its numerous campaign promises for which they were voted into office at the centre.
“We are deeply worried that the President who promised to unveil his cabinet two weeks after his inauguration, has not been able to decide on key appointments such as ministers, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, a Chief of Staff and advisers in key sectors of the economy.
“This is moreso as the delay has brought government business in ministries, departments and agencies to a dangerous standstill with coordination of important policies vested on ministers and the SGF now in tatters while the system drifts.
“This situation also creates loopholes through which overzealous persons around the President can connive with unscrupulous elements in the bureaucracy to siphon public resources in addition to possibly misleading the President to violate due process by spending beyond and outside his statutory limits.”
Metuh added that the economy was already suffering due to the action and inaction of the President.
Already, he said that the stock market has lost over N238 billion while the All-Share Index fell by 849.87 basis points as of June 19.
According to him, “the situation is taking its toll on the economy sector, which has in the 30 days witnessed unprecedented decline with a terrifying crippling of foreign and domestic investments including activities in the money and capital market sectors.
“Under President Buhari, the stock market has lost over N238 billion while the All-Share Index fell by 849.87 basis points as of June 19.
“In security, apart from the directive to relocate the counter terrorism command center to Borno State and seeking assistance from foreigners, no other concrete step has been taken in the fight against insurgency which the President, in his April 22, 2015 CNN interview, promised to end within his two months in office.
“Instead, the anti-terrorism effort has completely lost steam in the last 30 days, with insurgents, who had already been pushed to the verge of surrender in the Sambisa forest by the Goodluck Jonathan administration, now surging back and spreading into the country.”
In this regard, he urged the President to confront insurgency and issues of national security with all the vigour they deserve while calling for restraint from actions capable of destroying the fabrics of security intelligence.
He also called for adequate respect for all organs of internal security such as the Directorate of State Security, which, he said, is answerable to the Nigerian state and as such should not be publicly ridiculed by an aide of the President.
Metuh said his party was worried about happenings at the National Assembly and urged the APC not to undermine that arm of government.
Meanwhile, the Presidency yesterday fired back at the spokesman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Oliseh Metuh, who in a 30-day appraisal had called for prayers for the administration of President MuhammaduBuhari.
Metuh had said the Buhari administration was showing symptoms of confusion and cluelessness.
He premised Buhari’s cluelessness on his inability to make key appointments and set in motion machineries that will ensure the fulfillment of his campaign promises.
According to Metuh, President Buhari’s snail speed was affecting the economy, adding that the last month had been so much of motion and no movement.
In a swift response however, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina said the PDP should be blamed for the country’s situation, adding that it was the mess created by the immediate past administration that the Buhari is trying to clear.
“It is amusing to read what the National Publicity Secretary of the defeated Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), OlisaMetuh, considers a 30 days appraisal of the President MuhammaduBuhari administration. He wants Nigerians to join hands in prayers for the government, so that things would begin to move.
“What he does not know is that Nigerians had long formed such coalition. They are hands in hands, and that was what gave victory to President Buhari in the March 28, 2015 poll.”
“They had teamed up to uproot an administration that had brought the country to her knees, and was about to tip her off the precipice. And Nigerians have resolved that never would they allow any government to divide them along regional, religious and ethnic fault lines again.
“The Buhari administration is naturally contemplative because there was absolutely no rhyme or reason to the way PDP ran the country, particularly in the immediate past dispensation. That is why the Augean Stable is being cleaned now, and it requires scrupulous and painstaking planning. Across all sectors, our national life was devalued, and it takes meticulousness and sure-footedness to repair all the breaches. This, the Buhari administration will deliver,” Adesina said.
On alleged corruption, Adesina noted that it was the regular pastime of the immediate past administration details of which will be unveiled in the coming days.
“Metuh talks of people round the President conniving with bureaucrats to syphon money from the treasury. This must be deja vu, as it was the pastime of the immediate past administration, and the enormity of the sleaze will be evident when stolen money, to the tune of billions of dollars, is recovered, and returned to the national treasury soon.
“In the process of time, after all that is being planned by the current administration has matured, and bearing fruits, Nigerians will be able to determine who is serving them acceptably, and who has taken them for a ride. It is just a matter of time.