PDP Blames Buhari, APC Over Plateau Killings
BY AMOS DUNIA, ABUJA – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), asked the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its led Federal Government to come out clear on what they stand to gain by allowing killings and bloodletting to fester, as if the lives of our citizens have become worthless.
The Party also expressed regrets over the refusal of President Muhammadu Buhari and the APC to adhere to wise counsel the Party and Nigerians gave, killings particularly the gruesome killings in Plateau State at the weekend would have been averted.
The opposition party stressed that President Buhari’s failure to address and bring to book, the perpetrators of killings and bloodletting in various parts of the country is emboldening insurgents and marauders to further attack and murder defenseless Nigerians.
While bemoaning the gruesome killing of over 100 innocent Nigerians in communities in Plateau state by marauders on Sunday, the PDP said it is most disheartening that compatriots are being killed daily because those saddled with the responsibility of safeguarding lives, care less about the wellbeing and safety of the people, as they focus only on their ill-fated 2019 re-election bid.
A statement by the PDP issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan said that even when the Zamfara State governor, Abdul-aziz Yari cried out that he was overwhelmed by the spate of insecurity and killings, the Federal Government gave him an ineffectual response laced with their trite blame game.
The PDP said; “We urge Nigerians to note that since the escalation of killings and bloodletting in various parts of the country, particularly in Plateau, Benue, Taraba, Kogi, Adamawa, Yobe, Borno, Zamfara, Kaduna and other states, no concrete steps have been taken by the APC administration to strengthen and fortify the security architecture in the troubled areas.
“Instead, what we are witnessing are inactions, impotent assurances and blame games that have continued to compromise security in the areas thereby creating opening for marauders to continue to ravage our people.
“In fact, if the APC and its Federal Government had channeled the same energy and resources they have deployed to fighting perceived opponents towards fighting marauders and insurgents, the security challenge would not have been as devastating as we have in our nation today.
“We now find ourselves in a situation where government attach no value to the lives of Nigerians so much so that top security officials flout presidential orders and even abandon their security duties in troubled areas while the President, as the Commander-in-Chief, takes no strong steps to reorder his parade.”
The opposition PDP said it particularly agrees with Nigerians that if the over 7,000 security personnel, police surveillance helicopters and Armoured Personnel Carriers were not withdrawn from their primary security duties and drafted to be part of the APC national convention, the marauders would not have had a field day in the Plateau attack.
“Finally, while the PDP commiserates with the families of the victims of the attack, we totally reject these killings and demand an immediate concrete step to get to the root of the matter and end this bloodletting in our land,” the party insisted.
