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Buhari is arrogant, dictatorial-PDP

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.. Says he is the one pushing for war in Nigeria, and must be stopped

Opposition Peoples Democratic Party,PDP has said that President Buharis arrogance and dictatorial attitude on national issues is responsible for the war situation the country is headed.
“By his stiff-necked position against the cries for restructuring of Nigeria, echoing across the country, President Muhammadu Buhari, is the one pushing for war”, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), said on Sunday through a statement by National Publicity Secretary,Kola Ologbodiyan.

The party, while responding to the President’s statement on Saturday, where he tagged agitators for restructuring as troublemakers rooting for war, described his disposition as arrogant and dictatorial.

Referring to Buhari’s aversion to what it called the constitutionally-guaranteed rights of Nigerians as inflammatory, the party, cautioned against the “incendiary comment credited to President Buhari, wherein he was on Saturday, reported to have observed the demand by Nigerians for constitutional restructuring as contiguous with warfare, while sentencing the proponents as “mischievously dangerous.”’

The PDP describes President Buhari’s reported remarks that he and his All Progressives Congress (APC) had no time for the call by Nigerians, across board, for a discourse on the state of the nation, particularly in the face of worsening insecurity, economic hardship and sectional disagreements, further demonstrates their arrogant and dictatorial disposition towards the people.

“It is instructive to inform President Buhari that, as citizens of a democratic state, Nigerians have every right to demand for constitutional restructuring as well as a democratic forum to deliberate on good governance and national cohesion.

The PDP notes that such demands are neither synonymous nor contiguous to warfare.

“It is appalling, and to say the least, despicable, that Mr. President and his party, the APC, who came to power in 2015 on the promise of restructuring, have not only reneged, in utter duplicity towards Nigerians, but also turned around, six years after, to label restructuring as warfare and Nigerians demanding for it as “mischievously dangerous”.

“President Buhari should be tutored to know that even the quest for efficient local government system as well as an effectual judiciary, which he alluded to as a focus, can only be achieved through a constitutional restructuring that directly confers and vests the required powers and control to them,” the party, said in a statement signed by its spokesman, Kola Ologbodiyan.

The statement, added: “Only recently, President Buhari confessed how he asked some state governors who came to him on issues of security to go back to their respective states and face the challenge.

“The amendment or alteration of the constitution to permit state police as widely demanded by Nigerians is therefore a form of restructuring that will adjust our policing system without creating a war.

“In as much as the PDP hold the unity and indivisibility of our nation as supreme, our party however supports amendments that will alter the 1999 Constitution (as amended) in any manners that will engender good governance and reinforce, rather than detract from her unity, peace, equity and stability.

“Moreover, our party invites Nigerians to note that the APC, as a party, does not have any iota of regard for their aspiration .

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