REMARK ON UMAHI’S SWITCH TO APC EXPOSED BUHARI’S INCOMPETENCE – PDP

THE PEOPLES DEMOCRATIC PARTY (PDP) ON THURSDAY MOCKED PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI OVER HIS COMMENT ON THE DEFECTION OF THE EBONYI STATE GOVERNOR, DAVE UMAHI, TO THE ALL PROGRESSIVES CONGRESS (APC).

THE PARTY IN A STATEMENT ISSUED BY HIS NATIONAL PUBLICITY SECRETARY, KOLA OLOGBONDIYAN, DESCRIBED THE PRESIDENT’S COMMENT ON THE GOVERNOR’S SWITCH TO THE RULING PARTY AS A DERELICTION OF DUTY AND “POLITICAL SCAVENGING.”

PRESIDENT BUHARI HAD SAID ON WEDNESDAY HE WAS PROUD OF UMAHI OVER HIS DEFECTION TO THE APC AND HAILED THE SWITCH AS A “BOLD MOVE DRIVEN PURELY BY PRINCIPLE RATHER THAN OPPORTUNISTIC MOTIVES.”

BUT THE PDP IN ITS REACTION SAID THE STATEMENT CREDITED TO THE PRESIDENT ALSO EXPOSED HOW “THE NATION WAS BROUGHT TO HER KNEES AS COMPELLING DEMANDS OF OFFICE ARE MADE TO SUFFER WHILE THE PRESIDENCY GLOATS OVER TRIVIAL ISSUES.”