Imo Security Crisis Induced By Uzodinma’s Lack Of Feelings For Citizens – PDP

BY EVELYN DADU, ABUJA – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday cautioned Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State against politicizing the current security crisis in the State which it said is occasioned by his mismanagement of the sensibilities of the citizens.

This is even as the PDP said that the frenzy by Governor Uzodinma against demands by well-meaning Nigerians for the establishment of state police, exposes his sympathy for terrorists and bandits who are killing, kidnapping and ravaging the nation.

The PDP said that it’s position is predicated on Governor Uzodinma’s interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Wednesday, wherein he also attempted to justify President Muhammadu Buhari’s failure to wake up to the statutory demand of his office and take expected steps to rescue Nigerians from terrorists and bandits.

The party in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, asserted that Uzodinma’s anti-people stance against efforts to establish state policing system also exposes his insensitivity to the plight of Nigerians in the face of manifest failure by the All Progressives Congress (APC)-controlled federal security apparatus to protect the people.

The PDP further said; “It is however not surprising that Hope Uzodinma, who is in the Imo State government house as a beneficiary of criminal manipulation of our electoral and judicial processes by the APC, cannot but found himself justifying the failures of his benefactors at the expense of the lives of other Nigerians, including the people of Imo state.

“Nigerians are now seeing the faces of the APC leaders who have sympathy for terrorism and should hold such individuals responsible for the activities of such deviants in our country.

“Governor Uzodinma, as a former legislator, knows that the Second Schedule (Exclusive Legislative List) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) vests the operation of the police, the military and other armed services; the control of arms and ammunitions as well as criminal records among other statutory paraphernalia of national security on the Federal Government and not the states.

“Against this backdrop, any well-meaning leader ought to be lending his or her voice to the call by Nigerians on President Buhari to wake up to his statutory responsibilities as well as initiating the required executive instrument to accelerate legislative actions towards the amendment of relevant sections of the constitution to establish a desirable state police system,” the party said.

It urged Governor Uzodinma to end his pursuits of imaginary traducers and blame nobody but himself and his APC for the crisis in Imo state.

According to the PDP; “Our party is grief-stricken over the devastation that Governor Uzodinma and the APC have brought to Imo state and urges the people to continue to be peaceful and law-abiding despite the provocations by APC thugs who have been causing mayhem in the state”.