The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has said that the recent multiple bombings in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital resulting in at least 23 deaths and injuring more than 100 people, are another incontrovertible piece of evidence of the inability of the APC-led federal government to curb the growing insecurity in the country.
It stressed that there is no one, including President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who will not agree that the country was safer in 2015 than it is today.
The PDP noted that despite this glaring failure, the APC-led Presidency has devoted more time, energy, and resources to the task of political genocide against the opposition, instead of deploying the same to combat the growing insecurity that has become the lived reality and new normal of Nigerians.
This was as the PDP described the Maiduguri bombing as most unfortunate in addition to the numerous acts of grave insecurity that have occurred under the watch of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who was the loudest campaign voice for the APC, promising to end insecurity immediately if his party is elected.
The opposition party in a statement by Comrade Ini Ememobong, National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, stated that sadly, 11 years after, insecurity has not only increased significantly in the Northeastern part of Nigeria; but has spread almost uncontrollably to many other parts of the country that were hitherto very safe and peaceful.
According to Ememobong; “Despite this glaring failure, the APC-led Presidency has devoted more time, energy, and resources to the task of political genocide against the opposition, instead of deploying the same to combat the growing insecurity that has become the lived reality and new normal of Nigerians”.
While sympathising with the families of victims affected by the dastardly and most condemnable act, the PDP called on the federal government to move beyond rhetoric in security matters and engage strategic stakeholders, especially community leaders, as part of a whole-of-society approach to combating insecurity.
