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Decries Buhari’s 10 months of joyless rule,
siege mentality
The Labour Party (LP) has accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of putting the country under siege, Daily Trust
reports. Alhaji Abdulkadir Abdulsalam, the national chairman of the party, on
Tuesday, April 5, in Abuja said the last 10 months of the administration of
President Muhammadu Buhari had not brought ‘joy’ to the land, but fears as well
as political and economic siege. Abdulsalam in a statement pointed out that the
mentality of the present administration had created a nation without coherent
practice of ethics, values and processes, but excessive action, taxes and laws
that prevent growth, while government’s intervention in the economy remained controversial.
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“APC’s ‘change’ has only been successful in the furtherance
of the siege mentality, whereby Nigerians are being oppressed, isolated and
manipulated in the face of the negative maneuvering of the ruling party," he stated, adding
“The APC government despite purposeful intervention by
well-meaning Nigerians, the Labour Party, civil societies and the NBA,
has created a corridor of consistent flouting of the ethics of good governance,
participatory democracy along sacred laws of the land in the pursuit of
perceived and contrived idealism, thereby making effective opposition low, and
multi-lateral thinking deficient.”
According to ThisDay’s version of the story, Abdulsalam
said that APC’s ‘Change’ mantra has only been successful in foisting a siege
mentality, a shared feeling of victimization, defensiveness and defenselessness
on the people, adding that President Buhari and his APC acolytes
have consistently blamed the PDP for virtually all the woes of the nation.
Meanwhile, a group known as the south-east south-south professionals of
Nigeria has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to declare a three-year state
of emergency on the nation’s economy following the economic challenges
experienced in the country.
The group’s
president, Emeka Ugwu-Oju, made the call on Thursday, March 31 in an interview
with journalists shortly after leading a delegation to meet Vice-President Yemi
Osinbajo behind closed doors at the presidential villa, Abuja.
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