Budget: PDP opposes rendition of Tinubu’s campaign tune in National Assembly Chamber

The singing of the APC presidential candidate’s campaign song in the National Assembly’s sacred chamber, during the budget estimate for 2024’s presentation to the Legislature, was denounced by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday. Bola Tinubu is the current president of the APC.

The PDP called it a deeply dishonorable and unforgiveable attack on the constitutional sovereignty and sensitivity of the Nigerian people as represented by the National Assembly, carried out by President Tinubu and his minions.
A brazen performance of Tinubu’s campaign song by the government’s security band during proceedings in the National Assembly’s chambers, according to PDP national publicity secretary Hon. Debo Ologunagba, further confirmed “the apprehensions by Nigerians of creeping totalitarianism and fiefdom where an individual is being elevated as a Sovereign in clear undermining of the Legislature and the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended).”

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Under Tinubu’s leadership, the APC is leading the country dangerously into cronyism and tyranny, and Ologunagba added that the occurrence confirms the PDP’s fears, which they have voiced on multiple times, the most recent of which was on Wednesday, November 15, 2023.
Under whatever pretense or condition, the National Assembly serves as a symbol of the Nigerian people’s collective sovereignty, which cannot be usurped by or ceded to any one person or group.

Additionally, President Tinubu’s characterization of Nigerians as “ordinary people out there” in his budget presentation horrifies the PDP. This comment reveals even more of the APC administration’s contempt and complete indifference for the sensitivity of Nigerians in the development of policies, programs, and execution of these initiatives.

According to reports, this explains why President Tinubu’s 2024 budget mostly funded the opulent tastes of the wealthy and powerful APC leaders and the White House, with no commensurately beneficial plan for the welfare of other Nigerians.

Our party urges Nigerians to be vigilant and protect their democracy by opposing the APC administration’s authoritarian inclinations.

“We cannot tolerate any action that could lead our country toward unconstitutional tendencies, as the APC is demonstrating. Nigeria is a democratic nation governed by the Constitution and the Rule of Law,” Ologunagba stated in a statement.