PDP Defends Danjuma, Says Statement Highlights APC’s Governance Failure

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BY SEGUN ADEBAYO, ABUJA – Opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described  the statement credited to former Minister of Defence, General Theophilus Danjuma, urging Nigerians to defend themselves against killers, as a clear proof of governance failure by President Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC) administration.

It said the elder statesman’s position not only captures the frustration of most Nigerians, but also presents yet another testimony of the tragic situation which the Buhari Presidency and APC have put the nation.

According to the PDP, the statement justifies its stand that the Buhari Presidency and the dysfunctional APC must be held responsible for Nigeria’s agonizing state, adding; “Nigerians are now daily paying the supreme price because of the failures of a grossly incompetent leadership and a deceitful ruling party.”

PDP’s National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, said “coming from an army general, a former chief of army staff and former defence minister of Gen. Danjuma’s status, the pronouncement is weighty and directly reflects the ugly situation in the country under the APC.”

In a statement issued in Abuja, Kola Ologbondiyan said the fact that citizens and communities across the country are now resorting to self-defence is also a clear demonstration that Nigerians, across board, have completely lost confidence in President Buhari and the APC.

“It is instructive to recall that former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Ibrahim Babangida, both former military leaders, army generals and patriots, had earlier raised the issue of unabating bloodletting and pogrom in our country under the APC and the Buhari Presidency.

“Painfully, the APC-controlled Federal Government has not only failed in finding solution but is also contending with allegations of conspiracy and acts that are believed to have emboldened attacks against innocent Nigerians. 

“Nigerians are no longer feeling secured in their land. Our country has, in close to three years, assumed a status of killing field where defenceless citizens are despoiled, raped and mowed by insurgents and marauders in Benue, Taraba, Yobe, Gombe, Kaduna, Adamawa, Borno, Plateau, Nasarawa, Rivers, Enugu, Kogi among other states”, the PDP spokesman said

He said it is unfortunate that the Buhari-led APC federal government remains aloof and has failed to take decisive steps that will apprehend the masterminds of the carnage, adding that; “Instead, what we are witnessing are complete government insensitivity, allegations of complicity and compromise of security around soft targets and dishing out of false information, as was the case in Benue, Yobe, Taraba and other states where Nigerians have come under heavy attacks from marauders.

“More intriguing is that the Presidency and the APC Federal Government have refused to come out clear on their roles in the alleged compromising of security in troubled areas, particularly the reported withdrawal of troops from Dapchi prior to the abduction of the schoolgirls.”  

The Party, in calling for a UN monitored independent inquest on Nigeria’s security situation, said this has become imperative given that President Buhari has not call the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, for flouting orders to relocate to troubled Benue in the heat of attacks on the state.  

Also condemning what it described as Federal Government’s loud silence on the “alleged importation of military equipment by APC interests in Kogi State remains ominous”, the PDP said; “we stand with Nigerians in our moment of national despair even as we work collectively on our repositioned PDP to end the misrule of the APC and restore our nation to the path of peace, national cohesion and economic prosperity.”

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