Press Statement
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) charges President Muhammadu Buhari to
end his “private visit” abroad and immediately return home to face the
deteriorated security situation in the country.
The Party describes as completely unacceptable for President Buhari to
practically abandon his responsibilities, as the Commander-In-Chief, at
least for now, to pursue unexplained private matters in foreign lands,
while bandits, marauders and insurgents seize our nation; maim, kidnap
and kill our citizens with reckless abandon.
President Buhari’s inattention has emboldened insurgents and bandits to
continue to over-run communities, unleash mayhem and bloodletting on
citizens in Borno, Zamfara, Yobe, Adamawa, Gombe Taraba, Kaduna, Benue,
Kogi and other states of the federation, including Mr. President’s home
state, Katsina.
While President Buhari wanders abroad, bandits are having a field day,
pillaging communities in Katsina state; killing several persons and
abducting the District Head of his hometown, Daura, Musa Umar; the
father in-law of Mr. President’s security aide.
Within this period, marauders invaded communities in Adamawa and killed
no fewer that 26 innocent Nigerians; many more have been killed in
Borno, Taraba, Benue and Zamfara states, where bandits also reportedly
attacked Government Girls Secondary School Moriki, and kidnapped some
school girls.
While the Buhari administration remains virtually nonchalant, kidnappers
have taken over many of our major highways, with hundreds of compatriots
held in captivity in forests along Kaduna-Abuja, Taraba-Katsina-Ala and
other highways in the country.
It is clear that President Buhari has not demonstrated required capacity
to control the security situation and now resorts to cheap escapism,
particularly in the face of allegations in the public space that certain
individuals around his administration are benefitting from the
situation.
This is in addition to allegations that some of the bandits arrested, in
states such as Katsina, are not Nigerians but aliens allegedly imported
by the All Progressives Congress (APC) from Niger Republic to assist it
in unleashing violence and rigging the 2019 general elections.
The PDP urges the police to investigate this alleged links.
The fact remains that President Buhari has completely failed our nation.
In fact, his dereliction to duty is a clear signal that he has been
practically overwhelmed, deflated and has nothing to offer.
The situation in Nigeria today signposts the terrible condition our
nation will face if the Presidential mandate is not retrieved at the
tribunal to enable competent and uncompromised hands to run the affairs
of our country.
The PDP therefore calls on President Buhari to immediately return home
and use the remaining part of his tenure to seek help instead of
wandering abroad under the guise of private visits
Signed:
Kola Ologbondiyan
National Publicity Secretary
