The Federal Government on
Thursday declared that the claim by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, that the
adoption and release of the Dapchi schoolgirls were stage-managed portrays the
opposition party as an inhuman, insensitive, unpatriotic and unworthy party.
Following the release of the
girls abducted by a faction of Boko Haram terrorists, the PDP had in a tweet by
its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologboniyan, described the kidnap and
release of the girls as, “A scam of no equal dimensions the world over.
@OfficialPDPNig had repeatedly warned about conspiratorial plots advanced by
@APCNigeria interests to gain heroic attainments.”
Reacting in a statement issued in
Abuja by his special assistant, Segun Adeyemi, the Minister of Information and
Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed said it would have taken a conspiracy of global
proportion to have stage-managed the adoption and release of the girls since
the release of Dapchi girls followed negotiations by friendly countries and
reputable international organizations.
Mohammed maintained that the
reaction of the PDP amounts to an expression of sour grapes, especially because
the party failed woefully – when it was in power – to quickly resolve a similar
abduction of schoolgirls.
He said, “As we have said many
times since the abduction of the Dapchi schoolgirls, no government is exempted
from its own share of tragedies. What makes the difference is the way such
tragedies are managed. Whereas it took the PDP all of 18 days to even
acknowledge the abduction of the Chibok girls in 2014, the APC Federal
Government acted promptly and responsively when the Dapchi schoolgirls were
abducted 19 Feb. 2018, hence their quick release.”
The minister stated that it is
unfortunate that the PDP that failed woefully as a ruling party has also failed
grievously as an opposition party, going by its insensitive and crude response
to the release of the Dapchi schoolgirls – a development that calls for
non-partisan celebration.
According to him, “In its 16
years in power, the PDP redefined governance as cluelessness, massive looting
of the public treasury and crude exhibition of power. In its over three years
in opposition, the PDP has again shown it does not understand the role of the
opposition in a democracy. How then can the PDP convince Nigerians that it has
learnt its lessons and that it is ready to rule the country again? Nigerians
must say ‘never again’ to this primitive and soulless party.”
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Never again to the soulless and primitive party called PDP
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