You’re Sleeping Mr. President, PDP Chief Blasts Buhari [See Why]

You’re Sleeping Mr. President, PDP Chief Blasts Buhari [See Why]

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Delta State, Mr. Funkekeme Solomon, has dismissed President Muhammadu Buhari’s claim of having performed “extremely well,” saying that he had been a “sleeping President” under whose watch Nigeria has degenerated on all indices of development.

Solomon, a Senior Political Adviser to the vice presidential candidate of the PDP and Governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa, said: “Nigeria has been burdened with a sleeping President…….Continue Reading

“How can the President make such a claim when federal universities have been shut for over seven months; when Nigeria has become the poverty capital of the world; when armed non-state actors are having free reign, unleashing terror on the people?”

Speaking on a radio programme in Asaba, the Delta State capital, yesterday, Solomon insisted: “The President’s self-assessment shows he is not aware of the state of the country; that his fellow Nigerians are living in abject poverty and deprivation inflicted by his leadership.”

He pointed out that Buhari’s self-assessment amounts to a mockery of Nigerians that do not have anyone or anywhere to turn to, adding that the PDP was primed to bring the country back from the brink of disaster.

On PDP’s ability to defeat the All Progressives Congress (APC) with lingering disagreements among its leaders, Solomon stated that there was no faction within the party, saying: “What is happening is a demonstration of the democratic principles rooted in it.