PDP to President Buhari: ''Your CHOGM Trip was a Colossal Waste''
President Buhari’s attendance of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting
(CHOGM) in United Kingdom, which came at huge cost to the nation, was a colossal waste.
Nigerians are not surprised that the President returned last night, empty handed and with no tangible
dividend, a development which is the direct consequence of his negative comments about Nigerians
and his presentation of false performance indices to his hosts.
While other commonwealth heads of state used the occasion to negotiate businesses and showcase
the potentials and opportunities in their countries, our President only succeeded in de-marketing our
dear country and painting our citizens, particularly the youths, in the negative.
Nigerians may recall that during his meeting with British Prime Minister,
Theresa May, President Buhari, in the quest to hide the failures of his administration and push his
2019 re-election bid, Mr President downplayed the worsened economic and security situation in the
country under his watch, but opted for self praise and brandishing unsubstantiated record of
performance.
This self-serving stance ultimately blocked all beneficial bilateral engagements that could have helped
secure the much needed international interventions in those critical areas.
Two days after, President Buhari again took the stage at the Commonwealth Business Forum in
London and announced to international investors that Nigerian youths, a demography that forms the
bulk of our nation’s workforce, are uneducated and lovers of freebies.
We were therefore not surprised that no serious investor sealed any meaningful investment deal with
Nigeria as dividend from the CHOGM.
It is also instructive to note that despite the public outrage that trailed his denigration of our youths,
the Buhari Presidency has not offered any apology to the nation, particularly our youths, thus further
confirming the disdain in which this administration holds our young men and woman.
Having returned from CHOGM with nothing but wasted opportunities, the next move by the Buhari
Presidency would be to hugely mobilize their spin-doctors with public resources and direct them to
inundate the media with claims of imaginary gains in an effort to befool Nigerians.
Nevertheless, while we request the Presidency to immediately make public the cost of this trip on the
national coffers, we note that the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its Federal Government have
irredeemably failed and can no longer represent our interest and aspiration as a nation.
Nigerians must therefore unite to save our nation from imminent collapse by rallying with the
repositioned platform of the PDP to enthrone a purposeful and people-oriented government, come
2019.
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