The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned President Muhammadu
Buhari’s absence at the burial of former President of Nigeria, Alhaji
Shehu Shagari, last weekend.
The party said the President’s
absence at the funeral, particularly regarding Alhaji Shehu Shagari’s
status, as the first Executive President of the nation, was unpardonable
and a very wrong precedence in the national protocol.
PDP
Presidential Campaign Organization, in a statement on Monday by its
Director, Media & Publicity, Kola Ologbondiyan, said, “this action
by the Buhari Presidency has also sent a wrong signal to the
international community on our national values and respect for our
patriots.”
PDP also noted that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo was
also absent at President Shehu Shagari’s burial and that the federal
government has taken no concrete step to give a state honour to “this
very patriotic Nigerian, other than a rather belated directive to fly
our national flag at half-mast for just three days and a dramatic visit
to Sokoto by President Buhari.
“Sadly, while our beloved
President Shagari was at the National Hospital Abuja, passing through
his last moments on this realm, President Buhari was busy at his
campaign rally in Uyo, Akwa-Ibom State, boasting of how he, as military
head of state, sacked the Second Republic, arrested and locked up
President Shehu Shagari and his officials, in clear violation of our
nation’s constitution.
“Such disdain on our respected national figure by President Buhari is completely unpresidential.”
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