NIGERIAN'S REACTED ON BUHARI'S RESIGNATION

Former governor of Ekiti State, Otunba Niyi Adebayo, yesterday lambasted the PDP for calling on the President to resign.
Adebayo said: “I think it is irresponsible for anybody in the PDP to be asking the President to resign because of the present economic recession in the country.

If we all face the fact that the economic recession was largely caused by the corruption that existed in the last regime of the PDP government in this country, I think it is irresponsible for the PDP to be calling for Buhari’s resignation.right now” he added.

“When Jonathan came in, even though oil was selling much more than it was selling during Obasanjo’s administration he refused to save any money. By now we should have had more than enough to make not to face recession when the oil price fell drastically.

Reacting, the Akwa Ibom State Publicity Secretary of PDP, Mr. Ini Ememobong, said the NBS boss should be prepared to face a probe over the report. He said the NBS data showed that Buhari would leave in 2019. Speaking in an exclusive interview with Daily Sun yesterday, he said just as the Federal Government was considering probing the two former governors of the Central Bank of Nigeria, for making comments considered unpalatable to the federal government, the D-G of the NBS could equally be probed for confirming what Nigerians had already known as a depressed economy.
“The release of the statistics by the NBS is just an official confirmation of what Nigerians had long known. That the economy is in recession is not a matter of data. People feel it. It is not data that you need to analyse; it is a reality that people don’t see food; the goods an amount of money would buy before the recession, you can’t buy again. It is the absence of liquidity in the system.

Meanwhile, the National Integrity Group which comprises of 18 PDP support groups said the NBS data is good omen for the party in 2019 general elections.

Briefing newsmen shortly after the meeting yesterday in Kaduna, the joint Chairman of Integrity and Solidarity groups in Kaduna, Rilwanu Abdullahi, lamented that those who were elected under APC platform have abandoned their people because there is little or nothing to show that they are in government, saying, “those they elected have run away and left us who don’t have any palliative from government to take care of poor masses who voted them into power”.
Reacting to PDP’s outburst, the APC said the opposition party lacks credibility and rectitude to make such demand on Buhari. A statement signed by the National Secretary, Mai Mala Buni, the APC assured Nigerians that the Buhari administration remains solidly committed to resuscitating the economy in the quickest possible time and in the best interest of the people.

The APC said: “The statement by the PDP is the latest in the party’s insensitive plot to divert attention from the voodoo economics and reckless fiscal policies the country was subjected to during its 16-year rule.
“For the umpteenth time, the PDP lacks the moral basis and credibility to comment or condemn the government on the economy after the mess it left behind. Instead, the PDP must apologize to Nigerians.
Meanwhile, the Lagos State House of Assembly has condemned the call on the President to resig, describing it as a tactless and a distraction to governance.

The House Chairman, Committee on Information, Tunde Braimoh, said it was too early to judge Buhari, accusing the PDP of making a joke out of a serious situation.

He said: “The call is hasty, tasteless and frivolous, because the President has been in the saddle for less than 18 months. The rot that we are complaining of which has characterized Nigeria, and is causing us much set back has been there for decades. It became pronounced and entrenched during the 16 years of PDP. When this government came on board, it did not say it would perform miracles.

Former governor of Kaduna State, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, said the PDP was right but such a thing does not happen in developing countries like Nigeria, Nobody expects that a Nigerian President would resign on account of what he has done in office. We accept that things are very bad in Nigeria, but for whether Buhari would resign or not, I can tell you that he would not resign. In developed countries, it is enough for a president to resign on account of what is happening in Nigeria today.

Look at what is happening in Brazil just because of manipulation of the budget. That is the difference between the developed and developing nations.

Also reacting, Chief Frank Kokori, former Secretary of NUPENG said: “It is comical for anybody to call for the resignation of President Muhammadu Buhari. It is even more comical when the call is coming from the PDP, a party that was in power for 16 years. I am not a fanatical fan of Buhari but I think the man should be given a chance. Nigeria is not the first country where its economy is going into recession. We would get out of it but we need to give Buhari a chance.