Secondus letter to UN preposterous: Presidency
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the pdp chairman and all other politicians against whom the countrys anti-corruption agencies have on-going investigations should be assured that it is only a matter of time before the law catches up with them and makes them pay for the grief their mismanagement of the past has caused and is still causing nigerians. nigerians suffered because of the poison sowed by the pdp1 the letter by the peoples democratic party to the united nations secretary-general antonio guterres is preposterous and comical the presidency said today1 the presidency in a statement by senior special assistant on media malam garba shehu said the letter was a demonstration that the pdp was a bad loser desperate for another chance after they were kicked out in 2015 for failing the nation and its people1 pdps lecture on democracy and the rule of law coming from a party with a tradition of undemocratic rule is a desperate attempt to pervert history and the course of justice he said1 the sermon is both trite and hollow coming from a party with intolerance for dissent as its hallmark. a party that humiliated opposition parties and stunted their growth. this was the atmosphere that nurtured the birth of the all progressives congress apc1 the war against corruption for which many more politicians may soon be docked cannot be misrepresented as an attack on human rights and mr. secondus should not try to mislead the un. nigerian politicians at all levels have been used to dispensing with state funds in whatever manner they please and to have someone an administration finally saying no. it doesnt matter how big or important you think you are the law must come against you that is not something they are used to at all. for the pdp as1 the letter signed by the national chairman of the opposition pdp prince uche secondus accused president muhammadu buhari of several sins including alleging that his administration was at the verge of destroying nigerias democracy1 if the public were privy to some of the facts and figures on corruption that president buhari and the anti-corruption agencies are they would understand the passion that drives the determination to nail these callous men and stop them in their corrupt tracks1 regarding the accusation that president buhari is behind the spate of herdsmen and farmer clashes in the middle belt of nigeria all we will say is that it as an embarrassing charge that the pdp would make conveying an allegation from the beer parlours of nigeria to an international body like the un1 the pdp certainly has no shred of evidence to make such an allegation. these are comments driven by tribalism and that age-old trick of balkanisation in a bid to score political points. this should not surprise anyone given the politics of anger violence and polarisation that are the stock-in-trade of the pdp1 the various lengths to which president buhari has gone to end the spate of killings such as mobilising state resources against the attackers approving the setting up of new police and army formations in the affected areas and the recruitment of thousands into the police and other arms of the military are a few of the several steps taken which a more reasonable opposition will acknowledge1 what can president buhari possibly gain from the killings there is no intelligent angle from which you analyse the matter and see any possible gain for this government in the wanton destruction of life and property going on. for the new pdp leadership on the other hand incapable of thinking big about the nation they see and treat the unfortunate spate of killing of innocent nigerians as political gift about which they seem very happy to cite as the basis for a return to power. they feel bad at1