Forty eight hours after the unanimous resolution of 17 southern Nigerian governors calling on the APC-led administration of General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), to restructure Nigeria, the PDP has decried the ominous silence from the presidency describing it as a wake-up call for the ruling party to heed to the voice of reason before it plunges the nation into the avoidable pit of disintegration.
Recall that 17 governors of southern Nigeria met on Monday at Asaba where they brainstormed on burning national issues threatening the corporate existence of Nigeria.
The governors in a communique, placed a total ban on open grazing in every part of southern Nigeria as one sure step of stemming the tide of worsening spate of insecurity in the region.
The forum also advocated for national dialogue to be convened by President Buhari urgently as a first step towards restructuring Nigeria.
In a press statement made available to The Trent on Saturday, May 15, 2021, from the office of the Zonal Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Sanya Atofarati, the party expressed worries that 48 hours after the governors resolution, the media handlers of the ruling APC has not deemed it fit to issue a statement.
According to the statement; “Unlike in the recent past when presidential spokespersons were quick to tag any voice of dissent against APC’s misrule as fanning the embers of disunity with the aim of destabilizing their falling empire, the Federal Government through its attack dogs have kept mute.
“A meeting attended by virtually all APC governors in the southwest, southeast, and south south and chaired by APC Governor can not be dismissed with a wave of hand or as a mere ranting of subversive elements, hence the criminal silence from the APC,” the statement reads.
The PDP however described the development as a wake-up call for the ruling party to heed the call of reason and rise up to the occasion before it’s too late.
“The southern governor’s patrotic intervention at speaking truth to power regardless of political affiliations is a commendable act geared towards the unity of a rapidly fragmented nation but also a wake up call for the ruling party to address the national question as a matter of urgency to safe the country from impending but avoidable doom.”
