PDP Uncovers Hidden Agenda Behind Buhari’s Vacation

Opposition Peoples Democratic Party has made some gross allegations as the secret arrangements by the Presidency led by Muhammadu Buhari premised on the excuse of the President’s 10-day vacation.

On Wednesday, the spokesman to President Buhari announced that his principal will be embarking on his 10-day vacation to the United Kingdom effective from Friday, August 3rd and his Vice, Professor Yemi Osinbajo will be acting in his capacity.

In reaction to this announcement, the PDP alleged that the President’s vacation ‘was designed as an alibi to exonerate him from planned political illegalities, forceful invasion and mayhem about to be visited on the polity and particularly, the National Assembly.’

After Saraki’s cross carpeting from the ruling APC to PDP totaling the number of defection of lawmakers from PDP to APC 16 in one week , the President quickly had a closed meeting with remaining APC senators at the State House, Abuja.

In PDP’s Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbodiyan’s signed press statement titled: “Buhari’s “Vacation”, Ploy to Inflict Impunity On NASS, Impeach Saraki, Ekweremadu”, PDP revealed that the caucus meeting was to forcefully reconvene Nigerian Senate and impeach both the Senate President, Bukola Saraki and the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu.

“The Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) has alleged that President Muhammadu Buhari’s two-week vacation in London
The party is aware of plots already perfected in a meeting, on Wednesday night, between the Presidency and some compromised All Progressives Congress (APC) senators, who are now in the minority, to forcefully reconvene the Senate with protection from security agencies, with a view to impeach Senate President Bukola Saraki and Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu.

The PDP knows that the desperation to illegally take control of the National Assembly is part of the design to undermine our democratic institutions and completely foist a dictatorial regime on our nation”, PDP said.

The statement continues saying:

“The planned invasion is also a bid to cover the atrocious and humongous corruption of the Buhari administration, which the National Assembly is set to expose.

The PDP has been reliably informed about how these APC senators, especially members of the Buhari Parliamentary Support Group (BPSG), have been provided with huge sums of money, illegally lifted from repatriated funds, to carry out this nefarious act under the guise of urgent need to approve funds for the 2019 general elections.

It is clear that President Buhari and the APC are hugely terrified and distressed by the gale of defections from their fold and have resorted to underhand methods, threats and intimidation, irrespective of the damage being inflicting on the polity.

Having been demeaned by the widespread condemnation of the recent siege on the residences of the Senate President and Deputy Senate President, in addition to the invasion of the Benue State House of Assembly in a failed attempt to impeach Governor Samuel Ortom and forcefully take over the state, President Buhari is now jetting out of the country so as to appear innocent and oblivious of the political terrors about to be unleashed on the National Assembly.

This is the same leader who, in 2014, applauded the defection of PDP members, including then leaders of the National Assembly, into his APC, describing the movement, then, as “good for democracy”.

Today, his administration is hounding and harassing citizens for daring to defect from his failed party.

Besides, Nigerians will recall that the PDP had earlier alerted of plots by President Buhari to enmesh the 2019 general election in controversy by asking for virement of funds already approved in the 2018 budget for development projects instead of sending a fresh supplementary budget for the election.

If the Presidency means well for Nigeria, it should have sent a supplementary budget and duly write the leadership of the National Assembly instead of plotting to forcefully take over the federal legislature and push our nation into serious constitutional crisis.”

However, PDP is raising alarm that Nigerians should hold the President responsible if any threat against the democratic system of the country even if he is on this same vacation as at then.

“Despite their planned alibi, the PDP states that President Buhari must be held responsible for any abuse of power, disregard for rule of law and assault on democractic institutions, even in his absence from the country.

Finally, we wish to remind President Buhari and the APC that the PDP is now in incontrovertible majority in the Senate and we are ready and able to protect our democracy with all instruments available in the constitution and parliamentary rulebooks”, the party noted.