The Peoples Democratic Party,
PDP, has described the recent massacre in Benue, Rivers, Kaduna and other
states as wicked and height of insensitivity on the part of the All Progressive
Congress Presidency, APC, presidency to Nigerians
The opposition party asked the
ruling APC to search their conscience over the tragedies.
The National Publicity Secretary,
Kola Ologbodiyan, in a statement on Thursday said Buhari-led APC Federal
Government failed to take measures but reacted to the incidents only after the
PDP and well-meaning Nigerians took them to task.
There were attacks on communities
in Guma and Logo local government areas of Benue state between Monday and
Tuesday which led to the death of at least 20 persons and many others injured.
Also gunmen in Rivers State
opened fire on people returning from the church in the early hours of New Year
Day.
The statement reads “The height
of insensitivity of the APC Presidency became glaring in its reaction, wherein
a media aide issued some apathetic and indifferent lines without any precise
commitment towards bringing the perpetrators to book and assurances of adequate
security to forestall a reoccurrence,” the PDP said in the statement.
“What a way to start the new
year? The sheer insensitivity of the APC Government has continued to cause our
nation a lot of pain and sorrow.
“Is it not only a careless and
inept leadership like the APC government that will ignore the danger signs in
any part of the country and leave its citizens defenseless, just to be
massacred by marauders?
“If the APC Federal Government
had effectively acted upon the danger signs and had provided adequate security
in flash points across the country, particularly in Benue state, north central
and Southern Kaduna area, this massacre of Nigerians, who were already
impoverished by the APC’s misrule, could have been prevented.
“Is it not a tragic trajectory of
governance that while the APC Presidency was busy basking on its orchestrated
New Year self-praise and empty promises, bandits were having a field day mowing
down citizens in cold blood?
“Is it not also an irony that
when the government was prompted to react to the spate of killings, all its
officials could do was to respond in a most indifferent, nearly unconcerned and
almost without compassion manner?
“Indeed, PDP aligns with
Nigerians that the APC and the Presidency should have a serious soul searching
on their clear indifference towards the persistent killings and maiming of
citizens by bandits who constantly invade communities, slaughter the people and
walk away with blood of our compatriots in their hands.
“We insist that for the nation to
be reassured, the Federal Government must show commitment by ensuring that the
perpetrators of these killings are immediately brought to book and made to face
the full wrath of the law.
“Nigeria belongs to all of us;
every citizen has a right to life and no man should take the life of another
for any reason or under any guise whatsoever, the statement said.
“The PDP commiserated with the
families of the victims, and directed its members to assist and continue to
pray for them.”
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