UNGA: PDP Berates Presidency For Insulting Nigerians

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has lambasted the Presidency over its recent reactions to comments from Nigerians over President Muhammadu Buhari’s alleged embarrassing outing at the United Nations Assembly even as the opposition party demanded apologies to Nigerians from .the Presidency instead of the insulting press statement issued by Buhari’s aides.
The PDP says that President Muhammadu Buhari’s off-the-point answer to questions at the United Nations General Assembly UNGA’s interactive session was a further confirmation that he lacks the prerequisite education to hold office as President.
The opposition party, in a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, holds that Buhari’s off-the-point speech on climate change, as response to direct and simple question on his plan for the youth, confirms Mr. President’s personal inability to understand and effectively communicate in English language as required by Section 318 (iii) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended).
Ologbondiyan, in the statement insists that Buhari’s response was total embarrassment to Nigeria while his media aides’ responses to reactions indicate that low performance of his handlers.
The statement reads in part ”President Buhari’s failure to comprehend the question put to him and respond accordingly trashes his claims of attending education to school certificate level and possessing a WAEC certificate, and further brings to light the reasons for his inability to attach any educational certificate as required in INEC form CF001.
“It was obvious to all that because of President Buhari’s inability to understand and communicate in English language (as required by the Constitution), he failed to distinguish the fact that the text already prepared for him by his handlers had no correlation with question put to him at the UN.
“Nigerians can now see why the Buhari administration has remained miserably incompetent, lacking intact and desired capacity to manage the affairs of a nation as complex, demanding and multifarious like Nigeria.
“Moreover, it has also exposed why the Buhari Presidency overtly lacks the intellect and confidence to engage other world leaders, a situation that has led to the diminishing of the integrity of our nation in the international arena, in addition to the dearth in foreign direct investment under his watch.
“Instead of insulting Nigerians, the Presidency should apologize to our citizens over the embarrassments constantly brought to our nation by President Buhari.

Nneka Amaechi-Nnadi, Abuja