FG Rejects PDP Governors’ Call on Tinubu to Resign, Accuses Them of Distracting Him
Federal Government has rejected calls by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governor’s forum that President Tinubu should quit if he cannot tackle the rising inflation causing hunger, as well as growing insecurity in the country.
The PDP governor’s forum has contended that Nigeria’s president, commander in chief of armed forces, and the buck on the current challenges stop at Tinubu’s table.
But Information Minister, Mohammed Idris in a statement on Sunday said Tinubu would not be overwhelmed by the current challenges.
Mohammed said Tinubu would not abdicate responsibilities, but courageously wrestle with the challenges to lay a durable foundation for a new Nigeria which is very close.
He accused the PDP governors of attempting to seize through the backdoor what they failed to get through democratic exercise since 2015.
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He said that the Tinubu administration since 2015 had been clearing the economic mess it inherited from the PDP, and creating new landmarks in Nigeria’s economic landscape.
Those who could not bring transformational change when they had a lengthy chance to, should not seek to interrupt or distract those who are busy at work on the presidential vision that Nigerians elected them to implement.
Explaining what the present administration was currently working on, the minister explained, The administration of President Bola Tinubu has, since inception, generously extended financial support to all the state governments, regardless of partisan affiliation.
In addition, the removal of the petrol subsidy —which, incidentally, was one of the main planks of the PDP presidential campaign—has swelled the revenues of all states, including the PDP states. To whom more has been given, more is therefore expected.
The President and his administration recognize the unfinished business of revamping our national economy kickstarted by the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, through programs focused on large-scale infrastructure, social welfare, prioritizing the equipping and welfare of the military and security agencies, and reclaiming Nigeria’s strategic place in the comity of nations.
Boko Haram and its affiliates, on the ascendancy in 2014/2015, have since been decimated, and similar bold gains are now being made with bandits and other criminals.
Nigerians have not forgotten that it was the APC administration that cleared several liabilities left behind by the PDP government, such as subsidy claims by oil marketers, Paris Club refunds, unpaid pensions, gratuities, and salary arrears owed various categories of pensioners from liquidated and existing state-owned enterprises.
Idris said Tinubu would never be overwhelmed by the current challenges facing the country.
He will not abdicate his responsibilities. He will courageously continue to wrestle with the challenges and surmount them, laying a durable foundation for the new Nigeria that is emerging, the minister.
