The federal government has told governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, that President Bola Tinubu would not accede to their call to him to resign.
The opposition governors had on Saturday imputed misgovernance to Tinubu and advised him to turn in his resignation letter.
The charge has drawn reaction of the federal government with the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, in a retort saying the governors should perish the thought of resignation.
The minister said this via a statement Special Assistant (Media) to the Minister, Rabiu Ibrahim released in which it hit back at the governors.
The statement reads in part: “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.”
It continued: “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.
“Those who could not bring transformational change when they had a lengthy chance to, should not seek to interrupt or distract those who are busy at work on the presidential vision that Nigerians elected them to implement.”
