The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has alerted that the fizzling All
Progressives Congress (APC) is responsible for the escalated violence,
insurgent attack, bloodletting and worsened insecurity in our nation.
According to a statement signed by Kola ologbondiyan “The PDP says the
APC has been feeding fat and servicing its interests from the pains and
anguish of suffering Nigerians who daily face the agony of economic
repression, death, and violent attacks.
“The party also alerts Nigerians to be wary of APC’s renewed attacks and
baseless allegations against the PDP and our leaders, including former
Vice President Atiku Abubakar, all in the failed bid to divert public
attention from its atrocities against our country, including
compromising our security architecture for selfish purposes.
“The PDP challenges the APC to respond to the reported allegation that
its administration terminated the nation’s counter-insurgency operations
to satisfy foreign interests, leading to escalated violent attacks and
bloodletting in various parts of the country, particularly in the north.
“The APC should explain the assertion by international security expert,
Eeben Barlow, who reportedly on international television, Aljazeera,
told the world that our nation was successfully routing insurgents in
the Northeast before the APC and its administration terminated the
counter-insurgency operation to satisfy an alleged American interest
that assisted it to manipulate its way to power.
“It is instructive to note that the APC had engaged an unwarranted
attack on the PDP and Atiku Abubakar as well as sponsoring negative
divisive publications in the last few days in the bid to divert public
attention from this very grave issue.
“Nigerians can now see why insurgents, marauders, and bandits, who had
been pushed to the fringes under the PDP administration suddenly
resurged in the renewed ravaging of communities and killing our
compatriots unabated, while the APC and its administration engage in
lip service and empty condolence messages.
“Nigerians are aware of how the APC imported political mercenaries,
thugs and miscreants from neighboring countries including the Niger
Republic and used them to unleash violence on Nigerians during the 2019
Presidential elections.
“The APC has failed to account for these miscreants, most of who are now
unleashing violence as kidnappers, armed robbers, and marauders,
pillaging our communities without restraint under the APC.
“It is important to observe that the APC had failed to apologize or join
other well-meaning Nigerians in forcefully demanding for the arrest and
prosecution of perpetrators of the mass killings in Benue, Borno,
Plateau, Taraba, Kogi, Kaduna, Kano, Jigawa, Katsina, Yobe, Adamawa,
Ekiti, Ebonyi, Abia, Nasarawa, Niger and other parts of the country,
under its watch.
“Only recently, Edo state Governor Godwin Obaseki accused the APC
National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, of always relying on thugs for
elections and Nigerians know the devastation thuggery and its associated
violence had caused the nation in the last five years of the APC.
“Moreover, instead of clinging on straws by attacking the PDP and Atiku
Abubakar, the APC should account for or demand investigation and
prosecution of its leaders responsible for the looting of over N14
trillion from federal coffers, including the stolen N9 trillion exposed
by the leaked NNPC memo on oil subsidy theft.
“The APC should also account for the N1.1 trillion worth of crude
siphoned by its leaders using 18 unregistered vessels, the stealing of
over N48 billion meant for the rehabilitation of victims of insurgency.
“It should account for the N33bn National Emergency Management Agency
(NEMA) saga in which a very top member of President Muhammadu Buhari
administration was mentioned as well as the looting spree in National
Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) and the Federal Inland Revenue Service
(FIRS)under its watch, after which it should head for the dustbin of
history where it now belongs.”