Oguntuase Knocks Buhari’s Govt On 2nd Anniversary In Office

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As Nigerians celebrate Democracy Day and, perhaps, President Muhammadu Buhari’s 2nd Anniversary in office, the Ekiti State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has slammed the current administration for ‘woeful performance’.

In a statement on Monday, factional Chairman of the Ekiti PDP, Barrister Gboyega Oguntuase, has smacked the Buhari-led government, lamenting mismanagement of opportunity given to it by Nigerians in 2015.

According to Oguntuase, the fact that the Buhari-led administration plunged the nation into recession, its emergence has come “as a curse rather than a blessing to Nigerians”.

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The factional state chairman further said that Nigeria’s economy, under President Buhai, has been depleted, the politics bastardised, and the free, fair and credible poll left behind by the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan has allegedly been debased under the current government.

“As much as a share the ideology that there is no alternative to democracy, I am also disturbed with the kind of democracy we are witnessing under President Buhari. Nigerians rights were being abridged every day. Rights for salaries to be paid as and when due, rights to personal liberty, rights to self-respect, rights to life and association have been abridged under this government.

“Even the right to free, fair poll is not guaranteed under him unlike when President Jonathan was in the saddle. He was even defeated as an incumbent President but whether the election was free and fair was another issue, because we must be happy for the fact that we still had the chance to participate in electing our own leaders.

“In 1984, the likes of Abubakar Rimi, Chief Adekunle Ajasin, Prof Ambrose Alli , Chief Bola Ige and many others who participated in the 1979 to 1983 second republic were jailed without trial by military Junta. But today, we have a government our people can correct or query. Though, the totality of our freedom might not be guaranteed but we are free to an extent.

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“If we look at it critically, Nigerians have cause to rejoice that they are in a democracy because if one should consider the scenarios playing out in some African countries under dictatorship, one would come to conclusion that military has polluted the system and was never a good alternative”.

“The fact that President Buhari defeated an incumbent president was suffice to allow election under him to be free and fair. So, for Nigerians to know that they are under democracy, President Buhari must respect the rights of every Nigerian,” he said.

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