Buhari's Performance at White House During Meeting With Trump was Very Poor- PDP
People's Democratic Party(PDP), main opposition Nigerian party has described the performance of President Muhammadu Buhari during a meeting with the United States president, Trump in Washington on Monday as embarrassing and disturbing.
PDP said Buhari failed to project the economic interests of Nigeria before the American government and the world during the meeting, in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary Kola Ologbondiyan. The opposition party said it was alarming that Buhari failed to address the issue of the drop in U.S. purchase of Nigeria’s crude oil which is the mainstay of the Nigerian economy during the bilateral meeting.
“Nigerians and the business community were aghast when President Buhari could not market our crude oil to his American counterpart even when in the course of the question and answer session, a leeway was provided for him, he off-handedly declared that he cannot ‘tell America what to do’,” the party said.
The party also noted that the Nigerian president failed to provide answers to Trump’s stance that the U.S. had not been investing substantially in Nigeria owing to the unconducive economic climate under his administration, further confirming the stand of the PDP that the All Progressives Congress (APC) was running a moribund economy.
PDP also noted that Trump said the U.S. has been supporting Nigeria with the sum of $1 billion annually whereas Buhari, in his script, announced that Nigeria received only $500 million last year.
“We had expected President Buhari, as the ‘African Champion on Anti-Corruption’, to immediately respond to President Trump on the whereabouts of the shortfall of $500 million.
“It is also inexcusable that President Buhari had no answers to the security situation of daily bloodletting and mass killings in Nigeria, which President Trump described as ‘horrible’. Instead, he restricted himself to his script, which was silent on the issue.
“By this, the American government has summarily indicted President Buhari’s government on its failure to ensure the security of lives and property of Nigerian citizens.
“On the whole, the visit surmises photo-ops of President Buhari in the White House in a bilateral session where President Trump was committed to marketing the U.S. to the most populous black nation,” the party concluded.
PDP said Buhari failed to project the economic interests of Nigeria before the American government and the world during the meeting, in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary Kola Ologbondiyan. The opposition party said it was alarming that Buhari failed to address the issue of the drop in U.S. purchase of Nigeria’s crude oil which is the mainstay of the Nigerian economy during the bilateral meeting.
“Nigerians and the business community were aghast when President Buhari could not market our crude oil to his American counterpart even when in the course of the question and answer session, a leeway was provided for him, he off-handedly declared that he cannot ‘tell America what to do’,” the party said.
The party also noted that the Nigerian president failed to provide answers to Trump’s stance that the U.S. had not been investing substantially in Nigeria owing to the unconducive economic climate under his administration, further confirming the stand of the PDP that the All Progressives Congress (APC) was running a moribund economy.
PDP also noted that Trump said the U.S. has been supporting Nigeria with the sum of $1 billion annually whereas Buhari, in his script, announced that Nigeria received only $500 million last year.
“We had expected President Buhari, as the ‘African Champion on Anti-Corruption’, to immediately respond to President Trump on the whereabouts of the shortfall of $500 million.
“It is also inexcusable that President Buhari had no answers to the security situation of daily bloodletting and mass killings in Nigeria, which President Trump described as ‘horrible’. Instead, he restricted himself to his script, which was silent on the issue.
“By this, the American government has summarily indicted President Buhari’s government on its failure to ensure the security of lives and property of Nigerian citizens.
“On the whole, the visit surmises photo-ops of President Buhari in the White House in a bilateral session where President Trump was committed to marketing the U.S. to the most populous black nation,” the party concluded.
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