The All Progressives Congress
(APC) has called on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to stop campaigning on
frivolities ahead of the 2019 presidential election.
The ruling party urged PDP to
speak on completed projects and pro-people policies it had embarked upon as a
government rather than engaging in frivolities.
The APC National Publicity Secretary,
Malam Lanre Issa-Onilu, said this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja, while
reacting to PDP`s latest statements on President Muhammadu Buhari`s
achievements on security.
“The PDP in its latest
ignominious campaign of falsehood is attempting to distort facts on the
security record of the President Buhari-led APC administration.
“The PDP National Chairman, Uche
Secondus in a recent television interview declared that under the APC
administration, more Nigerians have been killed than during the Civil War that
ended in 1970.
“Sadly, this kind of blatant
falsehood has become the favourite pastime of the PDP.
“If we are to join the PDP in
their mindless game of playing politics with the state of insecurity, we would
be pitching the number of casualty during the civil war with what Nigerians
witnessed under PDP.
“As a party, we would rather
engage the PDP on the number of completed projects and pro-people policies we
have embarked on as a government for the benefit of the country, “ he said.
He explained that the APC
understood governance to be serious business and was focused on finding lasting
solution to the state of insecurity in the country.
Onilu further listed significant
successes recorded in the last three and half years in the country`s security
and other sectors since the inception of the APC administration.
He noted that the Niger Delta
violence which was prevalent under the PDP government had been tackled, adding
that the APC government had now embarked on the environmental clean-up of
Ogoniland.
This, he said, was to restore the
ecosystem of the area, which according to him, was of no concern to PDP during
its 16 years in power.
“Besides guerrilla attacks and
hitting at soft targets, Boko Haram has been seriously degraded such that it
lacks any capacity to hold territory.
“Most Nigerians, especially, the people
of the North-East are still smarting from the monstrosity of Boko Haram attacks
on the innocent citizens and control of large swathes of the country’s
territory under PDP,“ Onilu said.
The APC spokesman stressed that
in view of the PDP’s distortion of facts, it was necessary to catalogue some of
the many unresolved political assassinations, state sponsored military attacks
against Nigerian citizens and unchecked ethno-religious conflicts.
This, he recalled, led to the
gruesome deaths of hapless Nigerians in their thousands during its time in
government.
He further recalled the military
attacks on communities such as Odi and Zaki Biama and resultant deaths from
riots over Sharia law in different parts of the North.
He also noted the unchecked internecine
killings in Plateau State and other states in the North-Central which claimed
thousands of lives.
He said the Niger Delta militancy
that emerged under PDP made the region a hotbed of expatriate kidnappings,
killings, illegal bunkering and other criminal activities.
The APC spokesman further said
that with the emergence of Boko Haram under the PDP administration, the sect
was allowed to gain ground and control 14 local governments in the region.
This, he said, turned states like
Borno, Adamawa, Yobe and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) into killing
fields.
“The least the PDP can do in this
circumstances is to resist the urge to dance on the graves of the hundreds of
thousands of people who were gruesomely murdered while it was in charge.
“The PDP and indeed, all of us,
owe victims solemn conducts in their honour and in empathy with the bereaved
families, “Onilu said.
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APC, why can you be so dishonest. You're in a world of fiction!
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