Demarketing Nigeria: Presidency replies PDP, says Buhari will never lie to Nigerians and the world

Earlier today, PDP national spokesperson, Olisa Metuh, released a statement saying that president Buhari is "demarketing Nigeria" to heads of other governments over his comments about Nigeria. Now the presidency has released a statement reacting to the statement. Read below..

Our attention has been drawn to the latest statement by the PDP spokesman, Olisa Metuh alleging that President Muhammadu Buhari is “demarketing Nigeria”.

We restate for the umpteenth time to Mr. Metuh and his ilk that their attempts to distract President Buhari from the job he has been elected to do will fail.

Wike is spending his last days in office, declares APC

The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has said Chief Nyesom Wike of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is spending his last days in office as Governor of Rivers State. 

The party was reacting to the statement credited to PDP National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, who was quoted as saying about the failure of PDP and INEC counsels to appear before the Rivers State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal on Friday, September 18: “Even if our lawyers and witnesses didn’t appear at the Rivers Tribunal today and the remaining days, it doesn’t stop us PDP from winning at the judgment. But should we fail at judgment, we shall win even above 1.5 million votes in Rivers State re-run Governorship and other elections.” 

Rivers APC in a statement issued Monday in Port Harcourt and made available to NF-Reports by its Chairman, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, dismissed Metuh’s position as mere day-dreaming. 

We’ll never hang Buhari’s portrait in our offices – PDP

The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party has refused to hang the official portrait of President Muhammadu Buhari at the party’s national secretariat, checks by The PUNCH have revealed.

Over 100 days after the President assumed office, the PDP has yet to hang his portrait at any of the offices in its Wadata House national secretariat, located at Zone 5, Abuja.

The party has also said it would never put Buhari’s portraits on its walls though it has removed that of the former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, who ruled on the platform of the PDP.

“We will never hang his portrait in this office, because President Buhari is not known to our party. He is not a leader of our party and therefore we will never put his portrait here. We are a political party, very partisan and therefore, we are not going to hide that,” National Publicity Secretary of the PDP,

‘Mr. President, you are wrong on the regulation of domiciliary accounts in Nigeria’ - PDP

Press statement from the PDP below...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) wishes to bring to the notice of President Buhari that the apparent absence of an economic team in the third month of his administration is leading the country into economic quagmire and doldrums. In the past, we had given examples of the devastating effect of lack of an economic team and a clear-cut fiscal policy by this administration as evidenced in the lull and painful decline in the stock market, spiral rate of inflation, the disastrous outing of the government team in bilateral talks during the recent visit to the United States of America and the shambolic state of our economy at present.

This confusion has been extended to operations and regulations of the foreign exchange transactions in Nigeria wherein the government is making it impossible for honest Nigerians to engage in free trade and regulate their personal activities as guaranteed by the constitution, and this is clearly an agenda to illegally impose a communist economic regime on Nigerians.

60 Days: Buhari Yet To Fulfill Any Electoral Promises – PDP.

National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olisa Metuh on Tuesday said President Muhammadu Buhari is yet to fulfill any of the campaign promises he made to Nigerians during the just concluded general elections.

He also advised the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to repent from further deceiving Nigerians with fake and unfulfilled promises in the days ahead.

Metuh, who was reacting to a statement made by President Buhari shortly after his victory in the March 28 presidential election where he promised to effectively deal with Islamist terror sect, Boko Haram within two months of assumption of office said the APC only made the promises it knows cannot be fulfilled ‘just to get the votes of Nigerians’.

Buhari, in an interview on April 1 had said “we know how they (Boko Haram) started and where they are now and we will rapidly give attention to security in the country. And I believe we will ef­fectively deal with them in two months when we get into office.”

‘Buhari treating GEJ’s men like prisoners of war’ - Olisa Metuh

While addressing PDP stakeholders in Lokoja, Kogi state, yesterday, PDP spokesperson Olisa Metuh said Buhari is treating people who worked under GEJ in the last administration like prisoners of war.

We condemn the uncivilised method of arrest, intimidation and the denial of the fundamental human rights of members of our party who served in the last administration by the Buhari led administration. We're being treated as if we are prisoners of war. We're being treated like refugees. But we are not afraid, we have faith in our strength & unity; faith in the peace, unity & progress of Nigeria. We're not afraid of the intimidation, harassment and arrest of our members by the administration of President Buhari.” he said

NLNG Funds: Stop lying to Nigerians, PDP replies APC

Press statement from PDP

Our attention has been drawn to the misleading and outright falsehood by the APC. The truth is that the NLNG had been on a 10-year tax haven until 2014. Within this period, successive governments, right from President Olusegun Obasanjo never shared nor tampered with the cumulative dividends over the years.

Whatever taxes paid from the NLNG go through the Federal Inland Revenue Services (FIRS) and recorded as part of the income of the Federal Government.

It is imperative to note that by the end of the tenure of President Goodluck Jonathan, NLNG dividends had risen to a cumulative $5.6billion and not a single cent was ever taken from the funds.

Buhari, APC Should Thank Us For Bail-Out money - PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said the over N700 billion released from the nation’s coffers as bailout to states and local governments across the country was saved in the Excess Crude Account by President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration.

The party said it believe the money will go a long way in alleviating the sufferings of the Nigerian workers in various states of the federation who have not received their salaries for months but stressed that the money was accumulated by the PDP led federal government and handed over to President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

A statement by PDP national publicity secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, Tuesday, said the release of the funds was a contradiction of the earlier impression given by President Buhari to Nigerians and the international community that they should not expect much from his administration in its first one hundred days because upon assumption of office, he met virtually an empty treasury.

Police to investigate Deputy Senate President Ekweremadu over alleged forged Senate rules

The Inspector General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase,on  Sunday summoned the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, over alleged forgery of the Senate Rules on election of its principal officers,the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, said.

The PDP said Ekweremadu is expected to appear before a team of investigators at the Force Headquarters in Abuja on Monday (today).

It said the letter inviting the deputy senate president was dated July 1, 2015 and was signed by the Deputy Inspector General of Police in charge of criminal investigation at the FHQ.

The National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, said this at a press briefing in Abuja on Sunday.

NASS leadership: Tinubu, others offered us deals –PDP

Fresh facts have emerged on the horse-trading and trade-off that led to the emergence of Senator Bukola Saraki, Ike Ekweremadu and Yakubu Dogara as Senate President, Deputy Senate president and Speaker of the House of Representatives, respectively.

A member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Working Committee, Olisa Metuh, in an exclusive interview with Daily Sun had alleged that former Lagos State governor and  National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu actually reached out to certain leaders of the PDP to sell his anointed candidates for the positions of Senate President and Speaker, House of Representatives.

The PDP national publicity secretary further disclosed that the camps of Femi Gbajabiamila and Senator Ahmed Lawan promised PDP lawmakers in both the Red and Green Chambers, juicy committees.

PDP rejects Amina Zakari's appointment as INEC acting Chairman

The leadership of PDP has rejected the appointment of Mrs Amina Zakari as the acting Chairman of INEC.

At a press briefing in Abuja today July 1st, the National Publicity Secretary of PDP, Olisa Metuh, said the PDP was rejecting Mrs Zakari's appointment based on her closeness to the Presidency as well as one of the APC governors. Mr Metuh also said that due process was not followed for her selection as acting chairman.

Buhari Has Already Surpassed Jonathan's Achievements - APC

The All Progressives Congress says President Muhammadu Buhari has already surpassed President Goodluck Jonathan’s achievements in the area of fighting insecurity.

The National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said in a statement that Buhari had done in three weeks what Jonathan could not do in six years.

The party said the Peoples Democratic Party-led Federal Government could not get world powers to help Nigeria in fighting terrorism. It said within a short time, the Buhari administration would wipe out terrorism

The statement read, “Within three weeks of President Buhari’s inauguration, he has done what the PDP government could not do in six years: Invigorate the fight against Boko Haram by rallying a regional and global front against the terror group.

Stop Making Mockery Of Governance’ PDP Tells APC

Read the press statement below...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has charged the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Presidency to stop making mockery of governance with premature celebration of imaginary achievements except if the intention is to set up President Muhammadu Buhari for national and international ridicule.

The party said it was embarrassing that the APC and aides of President Buhari decided to invade the minds of Nigerians with propaganda and tissues of lies instead of assisting the President who was inaugurated three weeks ago to settle down, form a government and deliver his campaign promises to Nigerians.