{"id":33529,"date":"2020-10-02T07:09:59","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T07:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=33529"},"modified":"2020-10-02T07:10:06","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T07:10:06","slug":"nigeria-60-buharis-speech-a-slap-on-nigerians-pdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=33529","title":{"rendered":"NIGERIA @60: Buhari\u2019s speech a slap on Nigerians \u2014PDP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the economic assertions in President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s independence anniversary speech as a huge slap on the sensibilities of Nigerians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The party charged President Buhari<\/a> to wake up to reality and take demonstrable urgent steps that would address the divisive tendencies and poor economic policies of his administration, \u201cwhich are fast decimating our dear nation under his watch.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a statement by its spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, the opposition party said that Buhari\u2019s attempt to justify the increase of fuel price in Nigeria by comparing it to the N168 per liter cost in Saudi Arabia was a morbid joke, noting that the minimum wage in Saudi Arabia is N305,113 (3000 Saudi Riyals), ten times higher than our paltry N30,000 which is largely unimplemented in Nigeria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The statement read in detail, \u201cIs Mr. President not aware that, on the average, a person working in Saudi Arabia earns around 4,230SAR (N430, 267) to 16,700 SAR (N1,698,693) per month?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur party charges Mr. President to always check his books before making such offensive comparisons including the price in Egypt where monthly average earning is around N222, 841 (9,200 EGP) against our N30,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn comparing our costs with other countries such as Ghana, Chad and Niger where purchasing powers of citizens are much more higher, did Mr. President reflect on the cost of house rent, education, healthcare and average dependence on fuel for daily survival by ordinary citizens as obtainable in Nigeria?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf the flawed assertions as evident in Mr. President\u2019s speech are a direct reflection of how policies are formulated in his administration, then one needs not wonder why our economy is in doldrums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIndeed, it is imperative to state that if the Buhari administration had summoned the competence and honesty to continue the programs already laid by previous administrations under our party to revive our refineries and provide infrastructural backbone for our productive sector, fuel price will not be more than N100 per liter, in addition to the gains from by-product from crude oil.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The PDP<\/a>, therefore, urged the president to engender harmony and productivity by allowing for more robust discourse that would lead to affordable prices for fuel and other essential commodities in our country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur party also holds as ludicrous that President Buhari is hyping his \u2018better together\u2019 theme when the administration he heads, runs on nepotism, disregard for rule of law, human right abuses, corruption, political intolerance, suppression of free speech and aggression towards dissenting voices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe urge Mr. President to end his rhetoric and take practical steps to entrench the culture of rule of law and strengthen harmonious living through inclusiveness, equity in wealth distribution and equal access to opportunities for all Nigerians irrespective of creed, class, and ethnicity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFurthermore, credible elections are essential to harmonious living. Our party therefore restates our commendation to Mr. President for his new found commitment to non-interference in elections leading to conduct of free, fair and credible governorship election in Edo State on September 19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe urge President Buhari to toe the line of the Edo election in the October 10 Ondo governorship election so as to consolidate the legacy of free and fair election under his watch,\u201d the PDP said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the economic assertions in President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s independence anniversary speech as a huge slap on the sensibilities of Nigerians. The party charged President Buhari to wake up to reality and take demonstrable urgent steps that would address the divisive tendencies and poor economic policies of his administration, \u201cwhich are fast […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nNIGERIA @60: Buhari\u2019s speech a slap on Nigerians \u2014PDP » WatchDog Plus Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=33529\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Odofin\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=33529#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Politics\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=10\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"NIGERIA @60: Buhari\u2019s speech a slap on Nigerians \u2014PDP\"}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"NIGERIA @60: Buhari\u2019s speech a slap on Nigerians \u2014PDP » WatchDog Plus Media","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=33529","author":"Odofin","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=33529#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Politics","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=10"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"NIGERIA @60: Buhari\u2019s speech a slap on Nigerians \u2014PDP"}]}]}},"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Odofin","author_link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?author=2"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=10\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the economic assertions in President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s independence anniversary speech as a huge slap on the sensibilities of Nigerians. The party charged President Buhari to wake up to reality and take demonstrable urgent steps that would address the divisive tendencies and poor economic policies of his administration, \u201cwhich are fast…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33529"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}