PDP Blames Buhari For Allowing Trump Gauge His ‘Incompetence Level’
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of cheapening the Presidency by traveling all the way to the White House in April only to give President Donald Trump “the opportunity to assess his level of incompetence”.
The PDP was reacting to comments credited to President Trump of the United States who reportedly described Buhari as “lifeless” several months after meeting the Nigerian president in the U.S.
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“The first meeting, with Nigeria’s ailing 75-year-old Muhammadu Buhari in April, ended with the US president telling aides he never wanted to meet someone so lifeless again, according to three people familiar with the matter,” the Financial Times quoted Trump as telling one of his aides.
The opposition party accused Buhari of not only causing “our nation international embarrassment” but that the president and his aides have “opened our nation for international ridicule”.
According to the PDP, “such embarrassment is a backlash a nation gets when incompetent leaders, out of inferiority complex, resort to jumping around the world, desperately shopping for endorsement from world leaders.”
The opposition party equally alleged that if President Buhari had achieved anything tangible with his over three years in office, he wouldn’t be seeking cheap endorsement from world leaders for his proposed second term.
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“PDP hereby charges Mr. President to take a cue from the comments ascribed to President Trump by settling down at home and discharge his responsibilities to Nigerians or humbly accept his failings,” the party said in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan.
“While the PDP has strong reservations on the reported comment by President Trump, for which we demand a response from the Buhari Presidency and the US White House, the party further holds that had our dear President not cheapened the exalted office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria by his woeful outing during his visit to the United States, President Trump would not have had the opportunity to assess his level of incompetence and make such an embarrassing statement about our President.
“The PDP and indeed all well-meaning Nigerians are now sore worry over how other world leaders have been perceiving our President, who has not only failed in governance but has continued to demarket our nation in the international community.
“The PDP however urges Nigerians not to be downcast by the embarrassing situation the nation has found itself, especially as the 2019 general election, which comes in the next six months, offers the nation the ample opportunity to get it right on the choice of competent leadership Nigerians can be proud of,” said the PDP.
