PDP Sets Agenda For May On Visit To Nigeria

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) urges the Prime Minister of the 
United Kingdom, Theresa May, to use her state visit to Nigeria to 
uncover the dismal state of our nation by resisting a choreographed plan 
by the Buhari Presidency to hoodwink her for an endorsement stunt.

The party also calls on the British leader not to allow the Buhari 
Presidency to confine her to the palours of the Presidential Villa, but 
to insist on visiting other parts of the nation to enable her directly 
appreciate the level of lies and false performance indices the Federal 
Government has been dishing out to the world.

This is particularly as we have been made aware of plans by the Federal 
Government to use the visit to dish out more lies to the international 
community in an effort to cover its failures in governance in the last 
three years, for which Nigerians are clamouring for a new president 
under the PDP.

The PDP further charges the British Prime Minister, as a 
parliamentarian, to take the Buhari Presidency to task on its unabated 
interferences and violent attacks on the institution of the National 
Assembly, including threats to forcefully remove the elected presiding 
officers of the Senate, as well as the recent invasion and blockade of 
the National Assembly by Presidency-controlled security forces.

The PDP also wants the British leader to task President Buhari on his 
widely condemned stand against the supremacy of the rule of law in 
addition to records of violation of human rights in Nigeria, including 
government’s disobedience to court orders, reported extra-judicial 
killings, torture, unlawful political arrests and detention, restriction 
of free speech and media freedom and lack of government’s accountability 
as detailed in report by various international bodies, including 
Transparency International (TI), Amnesty International (AI) and US 
Department of States.

The British leader should also elicit discussions with the President on 
the recent report by Price Waterhouse Cooper showing humongous 
corruption in his administration, including the circumstances 
surrounding the N4 trillion unremitted oil money in agencies under his 
direct supervision as minister.

Finally, the PDP urges Prime Minister May, to engage President Buhari on 
the violent rigging of elections under his watch, and extract commitment 
from him on his administration’s preparedness for a free, fair and 
credible general elections in 2019, especially as there are 
apprehensions across Nigeria, that his actions, utterances and body 
language suggest otherwise.