{"id":59185,"date":"2019-05-30T13:06:18","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T13:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metronewsng.online\/?p=51472"},"modified":"2019-05-30T13:06:18","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T13:06:18","slug":"buhari-apc-overburdened-by-guilt-of-rigged-poll-pdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/buhari-apc-overburdened-by-guilt-of-rigged-poll-pdp\/","title":{"rendered":"Buhari, APC overburdened by guilt of rigged poll \u2013 PDP"},"content":{"rendered":"

The PDP in a statement on Thursday by its national Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, said the failure by President Buhari and the APC to make any commitment at the ceremony reinforced \u201cthe truism that a product of flawed electoral process\u201d cannot serve the people or meet their aspirations under a constitutional democracy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe poor attendance and passivity of the audience at the ceremony at a time that Nigerians were trooping, in their millions, to the inauguration of state governors elected on the platform of the PDP, manifestly show.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is indeed pathetic that at a ceremony such as Presidential inauguration, where truly elected leaders address their people, make commitments and unfold their governance direction, President Buhari did not showcase his plans or commitment to the development of critical sectors of our polity.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt also speaks volumes that President Buhari had nothing to say to the victims of mindless killings and acts of violence in various parts of our country.<\/p>\n

\u201cMoreover, he had no directions toward stemming the economic distress under his administration, for which Nigerians are now resorting to suicide and slavery mission abroad as options.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn failing to address Nigerians, President Buhari turned the inauguration to a parody.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe PDP however urges Nigerians to take solace in their determination to retrieve our stolen Presidential mandate at the tribunal so as to entrench a leadership that can lead our nation out of her present predicament,\u201d the PDP said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s failure to address Nigerians at the presidential inauguration showed that the President and his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), were overburdened by the guilt of the \u201crigged\u201d presidential election. The PDP in a statement on Thursday by its national Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[229,1325,1021,831],"class_list":["post-59185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-apc","tag-kola-ologbondiyan","tag-muhammadu-buhari","tag-pdp","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}