Insecurity: PDP Condemns Failure Of President Buhari To Protect Lives Of Nigerians
…Laments rising insecurity in the country
BY AMOS DUNIA, ABUJA – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Tuesday lamented over what it described as the escalated insecurity, particularly the killings, rising spate of kidnapping, banditry and acts of terrorism in various parts of the country, particularly the northern states.
The opposition party specifically noted that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government has failed to exert enough commitment in protecting the lives of Nigerians and curb the bloodlettings and kidnapping of compatriots in Zamfara, Borno, Yobe, Kogi, Kaduna, Taraba, Adamawa, Plateau, Bauchi and other states.
The party said it is heavily grieved by the pain, anguish and horror Nigerians have been subjected in the hands of marauders following the failure of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration to provide adequate security in the country, despite the huge resources at its disposal.
In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, the PDP also tasks the All Progressives Congress (APC), to give account of the whereabouts of the political mercenaries it imported into the country from neighboring countries, particularly from Chad and Niger Republic during the build-up to the 2019 general elections.
It explained that the demand is predicated on fears in the public space of the possible involvement of the imported political thugs, who assisted the APC to unleash violence on Nigerians during the elections, in the heightened acts of banditry in our nation.
Ologbondiyan said; “Nigerians could recall that the PDP had raised a red flag on the dangers of the heavy importation of unscreened aliens by the APC to involve in its presidential election campaign rallies.
“The PDP and other well-meaning Nigerians had expressed fears that such aliens could be used by unpatriotic elements to unbridle violent acts against Nigerians.
“We have been proved right that President Buhari and the APC do not believe in their campaign promises.”
The PDP notes that by every indication, the President Buhari-led Federal Government has no solution to the security challenges of the nation, which has festered under its incompetent watch.
According to Ologbondiyan; “This is the very reason Nigerians are anxious for the retrieval of our stolen Presidential mandate, which they freely gave to Atiku Abubakar, at the tribunal, so that our nation can have the benefit of a purposeful government that is alive to its responsibility of ensuring the security and wellbeing of the Nigerian people.”
