The Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP), on Wednesday, declared what it called President
Muhammadu Buhari’s resort to religious coloration and classification of wanton
killings in the country by insurgents, as “totally horrendous, unpresidential,
scandalous, discriminatory, divisive and a huge spat on the grave of the
victims.”
PDP described as
highly insensitive that Buhari could attempt to rationalize the failure of his
administration to end insurgency by
stating that 90 percent of those killed by terrorists are members of a
particular religion.
Buhari, speaking on
the death of the chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in
Michika, Adamawa, Lawan Andimi, claimed the insurgents are using religion to
divide Nigerians.
However, a statement
by PDP’s spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan noted that Nigerians have lost
confidence in Buhari’s presidency.
According to
Ologbondiyan: “PDP, as a Pan Nigerian political party, holds without any
equivocation, that the killing of any compatriot, anywhere by terrorists or
bandits, irrespective of religion, ethnicity or class, can never be
rationalized under any guise whatsoever.
“Mr. President’s
disturbing statement shows that the Buhari Presidency and the All Progressives
Congress (APC) attach no value to the lives of Nigerians as well as further
exposes their manifest lack of capacity and commitment to effectively tackle
the worsened security situation under President Buhari’s watch.
“Our party holds
that for President Buhari, a commander in chief, who promised to fight from the
fronts and now holds all the paraphernalia of power; and on whose shoulders the
security of the nation rests, to make such a statement leaves no one in doubt
that the Buhari Presidency has reached its wits end, exhausted its propaganda
and has no solutions to offer.”
PDP stated that it
was instructive for the Buhari Presidency to note that rather than engaging in
what it termed “lame attempt at rationalizing failure,” the expectation of
Nigerians was for it to take decisive steps, track down and vanquish
terrorists, who
resurged in the country after the President took over as Commander-in-Chief.
“More distressing is
that Mr. President’s divisive comment is coming at a time when all well-meaning
Nigerians, irrespective of religion, partisan and sectional interests, are
rallying together following calls by patriotic individuals and groups, particularly
the PDP, to find solution for the worsened security challenges under the APC
administration
“President Buhari
and the APC must know that every life is precious, irrespective of religion,
and that this obnoxious body count as rationalization for failure is completely
unacceptable.
“PDP notes that with
such dismal attitude Nigerians have lost all confidence in the commitment of
the APC administration to find solution to security challenges under its
watch,” the statement added.
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