By Olawale Oyetunji The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned the spate of insecurity and the audacity with which terrorists ra...
By Olawale Oyetunji
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned the spate
of insecurity and the audacity with which terrorists ravage the unchallenged
under the rudderless All Progressives Congress (APC) administration.
PDP in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Hon
Debo Ologunagba, Wednesday, alleged that the APC administration led by
President Muhammadu Buhari is complicit in most of the attacks.
The party claimed the simultaneous terrorist attacks on the
advance convoy of President Buhari in Katsina State as well as the Correctional
Facility in Kuje, Abuja underscore the collapse of security command and control
structure.
PDP, which described APC led government as failed,
ineffective and uncoordinated said the terrorist attack in Katsina as well as
the ferocious invasion and the freeing of hundreds of terrorists and criminals
from the Kuje Correctional Facility further confirm that President Buhari has
lost control of the security of the nation.
According to the party, the escalated spate of terrorism
across the country has heightened apprehensions of complicity by the APC and
further shows that Nigerians are no longer safe.
It also alleged that the unchallenged terrorist attacks are
plots by the APC to stall the 2023 general elections.
The statement partly read, “The failure of the APC
administration to act on the intelligence provided by the Directorate of State
Services (DSS) which on Tuesday July 5, 2022 reportedly warned of an impending
attack on the Kuje Correctional Facility gives credence to fears by Nigerians
of complicity at very high level of the APC administration.
“This is in addition to further reports that soldiers
deployed to the precinct of the Kuje Correctional Facility and who had become
familiar with the terrain were redeployed 24 hours before the terrorists
attacked.
“The PDP demands that the APC government should come clean
on who ordered the reported redeployment of soldiers and who failed to act on
the intelligence provided by the DSS.
“Nigerians can recall the public confession by the Kaduna
State Governor, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai at the wake of the bloody Abuja-Kaduna
terrorist attack that the APC-led administration knows the whereabouts and the
plans of the terrorists ravaging our nation but deliberately refused to act.
Nigerians will also recall how APC leaders publicly romanced and paid money to
terrorists.”
It expressed concern that President Buhari appears helpless
without any decisive and concrete steps taken to stem the tide of terrorist
attacks in the country.
The opposition party insisted that the APC government headed
by President Buhari has failed in the basic purpose of government which is to
secure life and properties of the citizens.
It urged President Buhari to urgently convene an emergency
Council of State meeting for a review of the prevailing dangerous security
atmosphere in the country.
PDP also called on the National Assembly to immediately
summon the Security Chiefs for a thorough investigation on the circumstances
resulting in the failure of our security system.
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