Oshiomhole’s Claim Of ‘Absentee Leader’ Best Suits Buhari – PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said Comrade Adams Oshiomhole’s description of Governor Darius Ishaku of Taraba state as an “absentee leader” best suits President Muhammadu Buhari who “has spent more days gallivanting across the globe”.

According to the PDP, President Buhari has used a substantial amount of his time in office “shopping for elusive international endorsement, than the time he spent in actual governance.”

The opposition party was reacting to Oshiomle’s earlier attack on Governor Ishuku on Tuesday.

The Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) had said “what we have now is a governor that spends one day in Taraba and six days outside Taraba whether in Lagos, London or in other parts of the world. You can’t govern in absentia. I believe that our party will make a difference.”

But reacting to Oshiomhole’s remark on Ishaku, who is a governor under its platform, the PDP urged the APC Chairman to direct his “tirade” to President Buhari.

“Adams Oshiomhole misfired in his attempt to lampoon Taraba state Governor Darius Ishaku, as his claim of absentee leader best suits President Muhammadu Buhari,” the opposition party said in a statement on Wednesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan.

“Unlike Governor Ishaku and other PDP governors who are busy developing their states, in line with the manifesto of the PDP, President Buhari has spent more days gallivanting across the globe, shopping for elusive international endorsement, than the time he spent in actual governance.

“We know that Oshiomhole is distraught by the increasing popularity of our party, and particularly the soaring approval rating of our governors, including Governor Ishaku, hence his resort to childish mud slinging and smear campaign, instead of concentrating on ways to solve the problems he created in his derelict party, which is now stuck with an unpopular Presidential candidate.

“Moreover, whereas President Buhari, APC’s brand face, cannot boast of any development project he has initiated and executed in the last three years, Governor Ishaku has been busy commissioning projects that have direct bearing on the people in all critical sectors of life.

“Also, while APC governors are only good at moulding statues, commissioning boreholes and regular bus stops, PDP governors are commissioning mega landmark projects, many of which President Buhari’s handlers lobbied for him to be allowed to cut the tape in an attempt to shore up his performance rating in the international community.

“Finally, since Oshiomhole has identified absenteeism as a major defect for which a leader should be removed, we charge him to start scripting his party’s handover note ahead of 2019 election, as President Buhari ranks as the most absentee leader in the history of our nation,” said the PDP.