The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of harbouring a premeditated plot to operate a monocracy, hence his continued reluctance to appoint ministers of his administration.
The pray said the president is increasingly moving the country from a democracy to an autocracy and attempting to impose a sole administratorship in all spheres of the polity.
The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, while addressing journalists yesterday in Abuja, also took a swipe at the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led administration for skipping an important event on Boko Haram at the United Nations General Assembly, accusing the federal government of gross insensitivity to the plight of the long suffering victims of the insurgency in the country.
According to the party, the president’s disdain for ministers could be seen from his recent outburst, where he described ministers as “noise makers.”
He said: “From his hesitation and comments, it is deducible that President Buhari never intended to appoint ministers but prefers to run a monocracy, and evidently does not value or respect those he would nominate as ministers.”
Metuh lamented that the last 120 days under the APC, has witnessed continued deterioration from a democracy to an autocracy, and attempts to impose a sole administratorship in all spheres of the polity, with its attendant consequences and embarrassments to the president and national image…”
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