Nigeria’s Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, has dismissed the call for President Tinubu’s resignation by opposition party governors as a “distraction”.
While describing the call in a statement on Sunday as “back door intimidation”, the Minister said the call is “nothing but an attempt at distraction by people who should instead be busy supporting the President’s efforts at bringing economic relief to the Nigerian people”.
He said: “It is our considered view that the PDP and its governors should not be seeking, through the back door of intimidation, what they have consistently failed to achieve by democratic means, since 2015.”
Idris praised the achievements of the APC administration in reviving the economy, fighting terrorism, clearing the debts, which included subsidy claims by oil marketers left by the PDP government, and implementing major reforms in the oil sector.
He said the president had also been generous to all state governments, regardless of their political affiliation, by removing the petrol subsidy and increasing their revenues.
“To whom more has been given, more is therefore expected,” he said.
He dismissed the criticism of the president’s performance by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) governors, saying they had no moral authority to judge him.
“Nigerians have not forgotten that it was the APC administration that cleared several liabilities left behind by the PDP government,” he said.
“Major oil sector reforms that the PDP touted for years but could not deliver are the very real and continuing legacies of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).”
He assured the public that the president and his administration were not overwhelmed by the current challenges the country was facing, and would continue to pursue the vision that Nigerians elected them to implement.
“President Tinubu is not and will never be overwhelmed by the current challenges the country is facing. 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,” he said.
The statement came after the PDP Governors Forum issued a communiqué on Saturday, calling for President Tinubu’s resignation over the challenging economic situation in the country.
The Minister urged the PDP governors to stop distracting the president and instead cooperate with him to address the various issues facing the country.
Emmanuel Ukoh
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