DANJUMAS CALL, A WEIGHTY EVIDENCE OF BUHARI, APC’S FAILURE, Says PDP...Urges International Community to Help Nigeria
The Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) says the call by the former
minister of defence, Gen. Theophilus Danjuma, that Nigerians should defend themselves
against killers, is yet another testimony of the tragic situation which the
Buhari Presidency and the All Progressives Congress (APC) have dragged our
nation.
The party said Gen Danjuma’s statement justifies its stand that
the Buhari Presidency and the dysfunctional All Progressives Congress (APC) must
be held responsible for our agonizing state, adding that, Nigerians are now
daily paying the supreme price because of the failures of a grossly incompetent
leadership and a deceitful ruling party.
The PDP, in a statement issued by its National Publicity
Secretary, Kola
Ologbondiyan, on Sunday, said the pronouncement, coming from an
army
general, a former chief of army staff and former defence
minister of Gen. Danjumas status, is weighty and directly reflects the ugly situation
in the country under the APC.
It 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.
Unfortunately, the Buhari-led APC federal government remains
aloof and
has failed to take decisive steps that will apprehend the
masterminds of the carnage.
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.
Nigerians are also yet to see the action taken by President
Buhari against the Inspector General of Police, IGP Ibrahim Idris, for flouting
the presidential orders that he should relocate to troubled Benue in the heat
of attacks on the state.
Similarly, the loud silence of the Federal Government on the
alleged importation of military equipment by APC interests in Kogi State remains
ominous.
Furthermore, the fact that we now have a situation where
government confesses to back-channel negotiations with insurgents; hasty
offering of amnesty to marauders and killers, allegations of round-tripping in billions
of naira on alleged shady ransom payments and swap deals with insurgents also
leaves much to be desired under the current circumstances.
While we restate our call for a UN monitored independent inquest
on the security situation in our country, 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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