The National Assembly has hit back at President Muhammadu Buhari, over his comment that looters would not return back to power in 2019.
Post-Nigeria could recall what Buhari said last Thursday, at an interactive session with community leaders and stakeholders, in Kano.
“Those who ruled Nigeria without vision and looted the nation’s treasury, are the same people boasting that they will displace the APC government and return to office.
“We will wait and see if they think Nigerians are ignorant. They have the guts to declare their intention to reclaim office”, Buhari had declared.
Reacting however, on Saturday, the Deputy Minority Whip of the House of Representatives, Mrs. Binta Bello, fired back, saying that Buhari should rather apologise to Nigerians “for being unable to fulfill his campaign promises”, instead of attacking the PDP.
She said: “He (Buhari) has the right to attack us, and we have the right to criticise him too, by telling him the truth. That is the beauty of democracy.
“The people he now calls looters, were the same people who funded his campaign in 2015.
“His campaign in 2015 was different from his campaign in previous years. In 2015, he had all the money to spend. The looters who left the PDP, gave him the money. Why did not he reject it, or tell Nigerians how he raised the campaign money?
“Let us face the facts; the President has failed in delivering his campaign promises. Where is the 2017 budget? What can he boast to have achieved in terms of implementing the budget?
“They can see that he is in power, and yet there is nothing to celebrate in terms of achievement. PDP has achievements it can point to.”
In his remarks, Senator Samuel Anyanwu (Imo-East), described Buhari’s comment as far from the truth.
He said: “How can he say our party is a party of looters? What is happening in APC now? Are they not looting? I do not agree with him.”
Also, Senator Mathew Urhoghide, disagreed with Buhari. “I do not agree with the President, because 80 percent of the looters in the then PDP government are now with the President in APC, and are still looting, and others are waiting to loot”, he stated.
The Senate Deputy Minority Whip, Senator Abiodun Olujimi (Ekiti-South), also dismissed Buhari’s claim as false.
She said: “Is it not PDP that has populated APC? He must be talking about his own party; he is talking about APC that is populated by PDP people who ran away to get succour.”
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