PDP To Buhari: Your CHOGM Trip, a Colossal Waste

President Muhammadu Buhari’s attendance of the Commonwealth Heads of
Government Meeting (CHOGM) in United Kingdom, which came at huge cost to 
the nation, was a colossal waste.

In a statement by it’s National Publicity Secretary, Chief Kola Ologbondiyan, the party said Nigerians are not surprised that the President returned last night, 
empty handed and with no tangible dividend, a development which is the 
direct consequence of his negative comments about Nigerians and his 
presentation of false performance indices to his hosts.

While other commonwealth heads of state used the occasion to negotiate 
businesses and showcase the potentials and opportunities in their 
countries, our President only succeeded in de-marketing our dear country 
and painting our citizens, particularly the youths, in the negative.

Nigerians may recall that during his meeting with British Prime 
Minister,Theresa May, President Buhari, in the quest to hide the 
failures of his administration and push his 2019 re-election bid, Mr 
President downplayed the worsened economic and security situation in the 
country under his watch, but opted for self praise and brandishing 
unsubstantiated record of performance.

This self-serving stance ultimately blocked all beneficial bilateral 
engagements that could have helped secure the much needed international 
interventions in those critical areas.

Two days after, President Buhari again took the stage at the 
Commonwealth Business Forum in London and announced to international 
investors that Nigerian youths, a demography that forms the bulk of our 
nation’s workforce, are uneducated and lovers of freebies.

We were therefore not surprised that no serious investor sealed any 
meaningful investment deal with Nigeria as dividend from the CHOGM.

It is also instructive to note that despite the public outrage that 
trailed his denigration of our youths, the Buhari Presidency has not 
offered any apology to the nation, particularly our youths, thus further 
confirming the disdain in which this administration holds our young men 
and woman.

Having returned from CHOGM with nothing but wasted opportunities, the 
next move by the Buhari Presidency would be to hugely mobilize their 
spin-doctors with public resources and direct them to inundate the media 
with claims of imaginary gains in an effort to befool Nigerians.

Nevertheless, while we request the Presidency to immediately make public 
the cost of this trip on the national coffers, we note that the All 
Progressives Congress (APC) and its Federal Government have irredeemably 
failed and can no longer represent our interest and aspiration as a 
nation.

Nigerians must therefore unite to save our nation from imminent collapse 
by rallying with the repositioned platform of the PDP to enthrone a 
purposeful and people-oriented government, come 2019.