Nigeria: PDP Chides Buhari for Signing PIB Despite Public Outcry

16 August 2021

Abuja — The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Monday berated President Muhammadu Buhari for "ignoring the outcry by Nigerians" across board not to sign the offensive, repugnant, and anti-people Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, as passed by the National Assembly, into law.

The party in a statement signed by its spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, noted that the signing of the law, despite widespread public rejection, "amounts to an endorsement of imposition and further confirms that President Buhari and his All Progressives Congress, APC, have no iota of respect for the people as well as the tenets of democracy as a system of government."

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