Leave Buhari out of Almajirai movement, BMO warns PDP
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been warned not to drag the name of President Muhammadu Buhari into the plight of hundreds of ‘almajirai’ moved across some state to their places of origin to checkmate the spread of coronavirus.
Defending the President, a media group loyal to the All Progressives Congress (APC) administration, the Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) accused the PDP of playing dirty politics with the movement of the ‘almajiris’.
The BMO argued that the decision to move ‘almajiris’ to their states of origin was made at a meeting of governors of northern states and has nothing to do with President Muhammadu Buhari, who has neither the power nor the inclination to give such directive.
The group made this clarification in its response to the Peoples Democratic Party’s allegation that President Buhari had betrayed the ‘almajiriai’, describing the PDP statement as mischievous, myopic.
In a statement signed by Niyi Akinsiju and Cassidy Madueke, chairman and secretary respectively, the BMO noted that the opposition party’s statement was, as usual, unsubstantiated, ill-motivated, and self-serving.
“While exonerating President Buhari from any involvement in the recent movements of the ‘almajiris’ across the northern states, we say emphatically that the decision for that action was taken at a recent meeting of 19 northern states governors.
“This decision was arrived at by PDP and APC governors across the north, a bipartisan party decision; how then has President Buhari come into this?”
It recalled that former President Goodluck Jonathan, while commissioning the first Model Boarding School for the Almajiris in Sokoto in April 2012, did say that while construction of such schools might be the responsibility of the federal government, their management is in the hands of the state governments.
“One wonders then if the sudden romancing of the almajiris by the PDP is for real, having abandoned the construction of classrooms, provision of teaching and learning materials and capacity building for teachers of such a novel programme during its 16 years of governing the country,” it added.
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On the allegation that the Buhari administration has wrecked the lives of ordinary Nigerians and rendered many homeless, BMO said this is not only laughablez but far from the truth.
“Rather, the Buhari administration has impacted positively on the lives of Nigerians in its six years, more than PDP did in its 16 years. We see this as self-indictment of the PDP.
“The social investment, poverty alleviation and infrastructural development programmes are laudable, people-friendly projects that the opposition party couldn’t even dream of,” it said.
BMO then urged Nigerians to ignore the baseless rantings of the PDP and continue to support President Buhari in moving Nigeria to the next level of poverty alleviation, infrastructural development, economic growth and prosperity.
