The Interim National Working Committee (INWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused President Bola Tinubu of abdicating his presidential mandate by failing to attend the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meeting in New York, United States of America (USA).
The PDP, through the National Publicity Secretary, Ini Ememobong, also described the statement credited to the presidential spokesperson on Tinubu’s conduct as disappointing and insulting to Nigerians.
“It is disappointing because no reasonable parent or caretaker goes on vacation when his house is burning.
“The underlying tone of the message is that Nigerians, no matter how highly or lowly placed, should not question why the President, a servant of the Nigerian people, should be held accountable for his decision to be absent from the meeting of global leaders,” the party said.
PDP stated that the President, when he was sworn in, became the servant, not lord and master, of the country and all Nigerians, who have a right to question how he governs them.
“It is therefore necessary to question why the President will be going on vacation at a time when insecurity is on a steady rise, the macroeconomic indices are looking bleak, and the citizens are fed daily with renewed hopelessness.
“The President’s action is a stark opposition to the existential reality of most Nigerians,” the opposition party said.
PDP stated that since Tinubu went on holiday in Europe, it was expected that he would proceed from there to America for UNGA, which it described as “unarguably, the biggest gathering of world leaders.”
The party regretted that the President and his handlers seem to suggest that the president is at liberty to determine which tasks he handles and from where he handles them.
“There is no greater insult to the presidential mandate than this.
“If the President is not in Nigeria solving the problems of the country, he should be at UNGA seeking international help for the country.
“But our President is lounging and enjoying himself in a country whose president is at UNGA, and his handlers are questioning the rights of the President’s employers to demand accountability,” PDP said.
