Apologize To Nigerians For Lying During Your Budget Presentation – PDP Tells Buhari

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The opposition party has accused President Buhari of deliberating lying to Nigerians during his Wednesday presentation.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign
Organisation (PPCO) has tackled President Muhammadu Buhari demanding an
apology from him for allegedly making false claims in his Wednesday’s
budget presentation to the National Assembly.
 
The Director, Media and Publicity of PPCO, Kola Ologbondiyan, said
in a statement issued in Abuja on Saturday that the organisation noted
with consternation, “the deliberate reliance on falsehood” by President Buhari in the 2019 budget presentation.
 
The campaign spokesman said Nigerians and the international
community were shocked as fact-checks revealed that a large part of the
claims made by Mr. President, particularly on projects he claimed to
have completed, were outright falsehood, apparently designed by the
Buhari Presidency to mislead the nation and the world.
 
He observed that the fact-checks showed that most of the projects
which Mr President claimed to have been completed did not have the least
attention of his administration, if they existed at all.
 
He added: “Of particular reference is President Buhari’s claim
that he had completed the Ugwashi-Uku Dam in Delta State, a claim which
casts a long shadow on his assertions, as the project had been abandoned
since 2015.
“In fact, the dam, which President Buhari barefacedly said he
had completed, is overgrown with weeds, while the road leading to the
complex has collapsed.
“The scenario is mostly the same in other capital projects,
particularly those in remote parts of the country, which, perhaps, our
dear President thought Nigerians would not fact-check on.
“This explained why federal lawmakers booed him during his
budget presentation, a development that is unprecedented in our national
history.
“In his desperate plot to nudge up a trajectory of dismal
performance, President Buhari resorted to falsification of achievements,
thereby violating his oath of office, the oath of allegiance to the
people of Nigeria and corrupted our national performance indices.
“This elevation of lies to a standard practice of governance is embarrassing and the PPCO completely condemns it.“All over the world, leaders of nations are expected to be
truthful in their dealings, but this is no longer the case as it
concerns our dear nation.
“While we do not want to call Mr. President a liar, we urge him
to tell Nigerians, in his own words, what he would call a person who
claims to have done what he did not do, particularly, given his
perception by a minority few as Mr. Integrity.”

 
The PPCO invited Nigerians to note that since fact-checks exposed
the myriads of false claims in Mr. President’s budget speech, the
Presidency had not offered any form of explanation.

“This goes to show that the claims were deliberate and intended to mislead,” he stated further, adding that “Nigerians
will recall that the PDP had always alerted that the Buhari Presidency
had nothing to offer Nigerians except lies, falsehood, deception,
beguilement, intimidation, harassment, hunger, starvation and
disobedience of court orders.”

 
The PPCO, therefore, charged President Buhari to apologise to Nigerians and get his handlers to turn a new leaf “and save his reputation from further nose-diving within the few months he has left in office as the President.”

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