The Senior Special Assistant to
President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, has hit
back at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), for saying that the government
orchestrated the kidnap of the Dapchi schoolgirls.
Shehu, who spoke with Dailytrust last night on the sideline of the launch of the British Broadcasting Commission
(BBC) Bureau in Lagos, accused the opposition party of “bellyaching”.
“The thing is that it is
inconceivable that any leader with conscience will orchestrate this against its
own people. But again this shouldn’t surprise us because we have seen it
happening in America. When the Twin Towers were bombed, conspiracy theorists
said that President Bush bombed the Twin Towers which killed 3,000 people in
order to undermine Islam or to create justification for the war against Iraq.
“So it is not surprising that
conspiracy theorists would look at President Buhari and said that he
orchestrated this. This did not happen. It is not true and it cannot happen. I
think what is happening is that our political opponents especially PDP which
has been very reckless on matters of national security.
“They thought the Dapchi girls
would give them an easy pass to power and that President Buhari can be equated
morally and politically to their rotten government. Now they have lost a plot.
They have to go and look for how to win power. How can they beat Buhari in
infrastructure? How can they beat Buhari in the fight against corruption? How
can they beat Buhari in securing this country and beating back Boko Haram?
Those are the challenges we give back to them,” the presidential spokesman
said.
PDP in a statement by its
National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologboniyan, had described the release of
the girls as a scam by Buhari’s government.
Ologboniyan on his Twitter page,
stated that the release of the girls was a plot by the All Progressives
Congress (APC) to gain heroic appraisal from Nigerians.
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