Fed Govt tells PDP governors, “President won’t resign”

Mohammed Idris, the Minister of Information and National Orientation, yesterday said President Bola Tinubu will not resign under any guise.

He said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors should perish the thought of resignation by the President.

The minister described the governors’ call as a distraction by those who should support the President.

He said President Tinubu is not overwhelmed by the challenges confronting the country.

The minister, who made the government’s position known in a statement in Abuja, said President Tinubu will “courageously continue to wrestle with the nation’s challenges and surmount them.

The statement was signed by the Special Assistant (Media) to the  Minister, Rabiu Ibrahim.

The statement reads: “The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, notes the statement by the PDP Governors Forum, directing a call for resignation of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu GCFR.

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 has also never shied away from acknowledging the pain of ongoing reforms, and has seized every opportunity to assure Nigerians that inside the pain of the reforms lie the seeds of lasting prosperity and national development.

To the PDP Governors, let us reiterate: This is not the time for distraction. It is time instead for the rolling up of sleeves, to support and complement the hard work of the President and his administration.

The Minister faulted the PDP Governors for trying to use intimidation to achieve what their party failed to do through democratic means since 2015.

It added:” 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.

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.