The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Sunday said the recent trip to the United States by President Muhammadu Buhari was fruitless.

PDP National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, said events after Buhari’s visit to the US proved that neither the President nor his party, the All Progressives Congress, had learnt anything from the trip.

He also listed many ‘sins’ of. the Federal Government, including the alleged maltreatment of Patience, wife of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan.

“Now that the visit has come and gone, our fear is that nothing whatsoever has been learnt or gained,” Metuh said.

“What we continue to receive as a nation have been embarrassing disagreements, accusations and counter-accusations, blames and denials on very important issues due to lack of tact and skill in the management of state matters by the APC-led administration.

“It is disheartening that rather than secure any sort of tangible gain for the fight against terrorism, which has lost steam under the APC watch, with insurgents, who were pushed to the verge of surrender by the Goodluck Jonathan administration, now surging back and spreading into the country, we get nothing but exchanges and disagreements between the Presidency and their American hosts.

“This is not only embarrassing but also a worrisome indication of crass ineptitude in the handling of international affairs on the part of the present administration.”

He urged the government to settle down and face the business of governance and the fight against insurgency with every sense of seriousness, especially given Buhari’s promise in his April 2, 2015 CNN interview to end the scourge two months after his inauguration.

Metuh also criticised the statement made by the President while in the USA, in which he was quoted as saying that he would administer the country on the basis of the voting pattern in the last general elections.

PDP further lambasted Buhari for allegedly walking out Nigerian businessmen at his meeting in US.

“These Nigerian businessmen were rejected by their President only for them to be valued by other Presidents of African nations, who led them into a meeting with President Barrack Obama in their own countries on account of their investments in those nations”.