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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.