The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari
to halt the feasting with the All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftains
in Aso Villa and show leadership by visiting the troubled Dapchi, Yobe
state, to get a first hand information on the circumstances surrounding
the abduction of the 110 school girls under his watch.
This noble advice, if heeded by Mr President, will bridge the disconnect
between him and Nigerians, who daily lament the aloofness of their
leader.
The PDP, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola
Ologbondiyan,on Tuesday, said it was disheartening that while the
parents of our abducted daughters are wailing and the insurgents are
fleeing deeper, the President and his APC leaders are busy feasting in
the Presidential Villa and plotting their bound-to-fail 2019 re-election
campaign.
President Buhari has completely reneged on his assurances, before his
election, to be a father to all and to lead the fight against insurgency
from the fronts.
Nigerians are worried that he has now allowed himself to be holed in the
safety and luxury of the presidential villa while citizens are being
slaughtered and taken captives by marauders and insurgents.
Nigerians are shocked that the presidential mandate of protecting lives
has now been reduced to a cosmetic dispatching of ministers and persons
with no knowledge of security, including those known to be falsifying
performance indices, on mere fact-finding missions, while machinery for
proactive security measures are left unattended.
Today, Nigerians are daily slaughtered and taken as captives because
those who have the direct mandate to protect them are more interested in
their ill-lucked 2019 re-election ambition while the citizens are left
to whatever fate befell them.
Painfully, Nigerians are yet to see any concrete action taken by the
Buhari Presidency to apprehend the perpetrators of the gruesome killings
in Benue, Taraba, Zamfara, Adamawa, Borno, Plateau, Nasarawa and Yobe
among other states where our citizens are being hacked down by marauders
and insurgents.
They are yet to see any step so far taken, outside empty promises, to
end or even reduce the carnage.
Most appalling is the fact that while the parents of our 110 abducted
Dapchi daughters are still wailing and insurgents driving into deeper
recesses, the President and his partymen are busy feasting in the
Presidential villa and plotting their 2019 campaigns; of course, with
funds meant for the wellbeing of the people and our nation.
Indeed, this President Buhari-led and discredited APC-controlled Federal
Government holds Nigerians in total disdain.
This administration is completely insensitive to the plight of the
people and it is not a surprise that majority of Nigerians are more than
prepared to reject them at the polls come 2019.
We therefore plead with President Buhari to show leadership by
immediately calling off his feasting in the Presidential Villa and take
that bold step to visit Dapchi, where a soothing word from him will be a
balm for the distraught community.
We also urge him to take decisive steps to scale up action for the
return of our girls in spite of the huge speculations that has filled
the air.
The President must keep his words to lead from the fronts.