Atiku Abubakar, former vice-president, says President
Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) should have cancelled
the dinner meeting held by party members after the Owo church attack.
On Sunday, gunmen attacked St. Francis Catholic Church in
Owo, killing many worshippers and injuring several people.
The incident has elicited public sympathy locally and
internationally.
Hours after the incident, Buhari met with APC stakeholders
and some governors at the state house.
Reacting in a statement signed by Paul Ibe, his
spokesperson, Atiku said the meeting of the APC leaders suggests their “lack of
empathy to the mood of the nation”.
“It is disconcerting that on the very day when the whole of
the country and the rest of the world was in a sober mood, on account of the
massacre in Owo, Ondo State, the ruling party, All Progressives Congress could
not find the moral rectitude to cancel a dinner with their presidential
aspirants, slated for the evening of Sunday, 5 June,” the statement reads.
“Needless to say that the so-called primary election is
standing on the backdrop of the reported claim of President Muhammadu Buhari to
be given an opportunity to handpick his successor.
“With blood of
innocent worshippers flowing on the streets of the Sunshine state, leaders of
the APC are gathered in Abuja, treating themselves to sumptuous dinner in a
manner that suggests lack of empathy to the mood of the nation.”
The PDP presidential candidate also described the APC
presidential primary as a “charade”.
“However, if the charade that the APC calls a presidential
convention primary election is merely to handpick an anointed candidate, it is
important to ask the managers of the ruling party why they elected to slate the
so-called convention for a working day, thereby disrupting economic activities
around the federal capital territory,” he said.
“Even as delegates in the so-called election entered into
the Federal Capital Territory, they must have been greeted with long queues of
vehicles waiting to buy automobile fuel and darkness that continues to grim the
capital city on account of seizures in electricity supply.
“Should the APC
delegates ask themselves what they have been brought to Abuja for, they should
know that primaries of their party is not about any of the individuals vying
for the presidential ticket of their party, but a referendum on the APC’s
scorecard in the past 7 years.”
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