By Valentine Amanze
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has alleged that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Executive Council (FEC) was not capable of driving the nation to the promised land.
The major opposition party also said that the FEC had become cancerous,
disorganized, chaotic, and incapable of driving an organized,
result-oriented system and as such should be disbanded.
The party’s position is predicated on the degenerated hostilities among officials in the Buhari Presidency, including Presidential aides, ministers and heads of agencies, which have further exposed a scandalous
breakdown of the administration’s central command system.
In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, PDP also lamented that the Presidency and FEC were disappointing Nigerians via their actions and inaction.
It stated: “Our party asserts that this situation is a mark of failure by the Buhari Presidency and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to provide organized leadership for our nation.”
The PDP said that a situation where officials were constantly at daggers drawn among themselves in unending clashes, backbiting, betrayals, leakage of sensitive documents and internal bickering over pecuniary and political interests, in manners not different from street skirmishes of common
cult groups, is unacceptable to the nation.
It further lamented: “It is indeed shocking that the acrimony had sunk to a situation where the Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, reportedly evicted the staff of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) from their allocated office, with guns, while the Chairman of the Commission, Hon. Abike Dabiri, was on official assignment with the President.
Currently, the newly appointed Chief of Staff to the President, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, are said to be at each other’s throat, with the SGF reportedly querying the decision of the President to sack the former Director of the Transmission Company of Nigeria, Mr. Usman Mohammed.”
The PDP said that the situation had degenerated into serious confusion in the federal executive.
It said that Nigerians could recall the bitter wrangling, wherein the National Security Adviser (NSA), Maj. Gen Babagana Monguno, earlier this year, alerted that Presidential responsibilities, including presiding over sensitive security matters, had been hijacked by the late Chief of Staff, Mallam Abba Kyari, thereby frustrating the fight against insurgency and acts of
violence ravaging the country.
Besides, it pointed out that the power sector was still under the stress of squabblingbetween the SGF and the Minister of Power, Sale Mamman, with the SGF, reinstating some officials who were sacked by the minister in December last year.
It also said that the nation has not forgotten the embarrassing public fight between the First Lady, Aisha Buhari, and President Muhammadu Buhari’s cousins, over rooms in the Presidential Villa, which further exposed the chaotic situation in the President Buhari-led administration.
Before then, it said, the First Lady had alerted the nation that a cabal had hijacked the federal executive and taken over governance of the nation.
“It is sad that presidential hostilities had resulted in escalated cases of internal sabotage including the leakage of sensitive documents as exposed by the Head of Service, Dr. Folasade Yemi-Esan and recently witnessed in the embarrassing leakage of President Buhari’s draft COVID-19 speech.
“Nigerians can now see how vulnerable our nation has become and why it is extremely difficult for our country to witness any progress under the Buhari Presidency, which has also ruined all the gains achieved under the PDP.
“Indeed, no nation can achieve meaningful development under a rancorous and shambolic federal executive council as currently constituted, with the height of irredeemable division among them,” the party stated.
The PDP therefore counseled Buhari to re-direct the course of the nation’s tides by “disbanding his poorly assembled and dysfunctional federal executive council.”