Obasanjo, Adeboye’s Fears Over Killings, Insecurity, 2023 Elections Real – PDP
BY SEGUN ADEBAYO – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says contrary to claims by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC)-led administration, former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the General Overseer of Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, are just “stating the obvious” about the current situation in Nigeria.
The nation’s main opposition party also urged Nigerians not to be deceived by the Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed’s unfortunate theatrics in downplaying the security situation last week only for eight people to die on the Kaduna-bound train barely hours later.
In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, the PDP said Pastor Adeboye was right in saying he was clearly worried and can not foresee any election just yet in 2023.
“Aeroplanes are not going to Kaduna, trains are not going to Kaduna and even many will not go by road. Can any election take place in Kaduna today? Pastor Adeboye has only stated the obvious”, the PDP said.
The PDP Spokesman also said with the public announcement by Chief Obasanjo that he was no longer a politician but an elder statesman, the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration should always take his comments seriously and not live in their usual self-denial dismissing them.
Noting that Buhari, who ought to console the families of those that lost their lives in the Kaduna attack, had even refused to visit the Kaduna State, the PDP said; “Obasnajo is apolitical now and an elder statesman. When he speaks, he speaks facts but in anyway, we don’t even need Obasanjo with his wealth of experience to tell us what is happening in Nigeria today.
“We are witnesses to it. We experience it daily. This is a government that has failed woefully. Section 14(2)(b) of the constitution says the security and welfare of the people will be the priority of the government. On that single reason, the Buhari regime has failed.
“Lai Mohammed said the railways were safe and barely hours later, there was a terrorist attack that killed many including a medical doctor. The Buhari government failed to save them.”
Ologunagba also blamed all the APC governors in the North-West of fuelling insecurity in their states by implementing a dubious amnesty programme for bandits and herdsmen.
In his recent comments, former President Obasanjo berated the APC-led government for being overwhelmed by insecurity as evidenced by the bomb attack on a Kaduna-bound train last week.
This is just as the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, expressed shock over the bombing of the train in which eight persons were confirmed dead while many others are still unaccounted for.
