Atiku Abubakar, presidential
candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has asked President Muhammadu
Buhari to take responsibility for the insecurity across the country.
Reacting to a report by a “US
based Centre for Diplomacy and Democracy” accusing him of having a hand in the
killings, Atiku said there is no such centre in the US, describing it as a
fabrication of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
He asked Buhari to rise up to the
task and stop blaming the opposition.
“No such body called Centre for
Diplomacy and Democracy exists,” he said in a statement Paul Ibe, his media
adviser, issued on his behalf on Thursday.
“Americans will never write
‘Centre’. They will write ‘Center’ in conformity to American English usage.
“This is the deepest low that
Muhammadu Buhari administration has gone in causing further division and
promoting instability in Nigeria.
“Anyone versed enough in the
protocol of international NGOs will discern without much ado that the
particular report by a faceless, insipid organisation known as ‘Centre for
Diplomacy and Democracy’ was contrived with express mobilisation from officials
of the Buhari administration in a shameless and disingenuous attempt to find a
jejune explanation for the rising rate of insecurity in Nigeria.
“It is so distasteful that the
Buhari administration, rather than have a self-introspection and admit to the
world that its policies and actions are responsible for the divisions in the
country with the manifestation of all manner of crimes such as banditry,
kidnapping and wanton killings across the land chooses to employ the service of
a faceless NGO to blame the opposition for its own ineptitude.”
Tackling the president over his
comment that Mohammed Adamu, the inspector-general of police (IGP), had lost
weight due to his hard work, Atiku said the Buhari administration and the APC
are renowned for propaganda stunt and double-speak.
“In their warped thinking, the
performance rate of security chiefs during times like this is determined on how
much weight the Inspector General of Police has lost,” he said.
“The question to ask is: how
would the APC have reproved a president who makes such careless remarks on
national security at a time when insecurity in the country has assumed epidemic
proportions?
“President Buhari and the APC
have shown without equivocation that the job at hand is overwhelming for them.
And because they lack the basic clue of how to tame the bogey that they have
created, they now scamper around like school kids who have caused an upset in a
highly sensitive science laboratory.”
He added that all Nigerians want
is a president who can hold the bull at the horn and get the job done because
the president took an oath to defend the lives and property of the citizens,
which is the primary responsibility of every government.
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