The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the Buhari
administration of shielding sponsors of terrorism and banditry in the country.
The opposition party was reacting to comments by Femi
Adesina, presidential spokesperson, that the federal government is not
interested in naming and shaming sponsors of terrorism.
This was after the United Arab Emirates (UAE) placed six
Nigerians on its terror list.
While speaking during an interview on Channels Television on
Monday, Adesina said rather than name and shame the sponsors of terrorism, the
federal government will focus on the prosecution of the suspects.
But in a statement issued on Tuesday, Kola Ologbondiyan, PDP
spokesperson, said the Buhari-led government has “always failed to forcefully
condemn acts of terrorism in our country”.
“The refusal by the Buhari Presidency to expose the names of
sponsors of terrorism in Nigeria vindicates its position that the All
Progressives Congress (APC) government has been providing official cover for
terrorists and bandits pillaging the nation,” Ologbondiyan said.
“The PDP position is predicated on the declaration of the
Buhari Presidency that it was not interested in making public, the names of six
Nigerians reportedly sent to the federal government by the United Arab Emirates
(UAE) as sponsors of terrorism in our country.
“The PDP holds that the decision of the APC-led government
to cover the identity of sponsors of mindless mass killings, maiming, raping,
kidnapping of our compatriots as well as the endless violent marauding of our
communities under the APC watch, validates our stand that such individuals have
connections with the APC.
“This unpatriotic stance by the Buhari Presidency raises
serious national anxieties of high-level complicity in the administration and
further explains the reported compromising of our security system in the
escalated killings and acts of terrorism in our country in the last six years
under the APC.
“Nigerians can see why the APC-led administration has failed
to take decisive steps to tackle terrorism, why it prefers to negotiate with
terrorists and even makes case for them, instead of apprehending and prosecuting
them, as witnessed in the beheading of rice farmers in Borno state.
“The PDP had always alerted of a connection between the APC
and terrorists ravaging various parts of our nation and how the APC, as a
party, had always failed to forcefully condemn acts of terrorism in our
country”.
The PDP said if the APC-led administration has nothing to cover, it should immediately “publish the names of the sponsors of terrorism given to it by the UAE, instead of this vexatious desperation to provide official cover for them”.
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