The People Democratic Party (PDP)
has asked the Department of State Services (DSS) to interrogate Godswill
Akpabio, minister of Niger Delta affairs, over his comment on Nigeria’s
security woes.
On Thursday, while speaking in
Abuja, Akpabio had said that the insecurity the country is battling with is
“politically motivated.”
“I think most of the problems are
politically motivated, so we must use our binoculars to be able to look and
identify the sponsors of the insecurity we are witnessing in the country,” the
minister had said.
The PDP, however, described the
comment by Akpabio — who left the party for the All Progressives Congress (APC)
in 2018 — as “self-professed evidence.”
In a statement issued on Friday,
Kola Ologbondiyan, the party’s spokesman, said the minister is privy to
“certain terrorism-related information” that Nigerians are not aware of and
which must be disclosed to the DSS.
“The PDP charges the Department
of State Services (DSS) and other security agencies to immediately invite the
Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, to name politicians
in the APC that are behind the acts of terrorism and banditry ravaging our
nation,” Ologbondiyan said.
“The PDP stressed that there is
self-professed evidence that Senator Akpabio is privy to certain
terrorism-related information which he must be made to share with the DSS as
well as other security agencies.
“Our party’s position is predicated on
comments made by Senator Akpabio at the APC national secretariat in Abuja on
Thursday that the acts of terrorism in our country are ‘politically motivated’
and that they are the handiwork of infiltrators from neigbouring countries.”
“Now that Senator Akpabio has
shown that he has certain information regarding the spur for escalated acts of
terrorism in our country, our party urges the DSS and other security agencies
to immediately invite him for questioning so as to expose the politicians in
his party that are behind the ugly situation in our country.”
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