Insecurity: You’ve failed, PDP tells Buhari
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has attributed the growing insecurity in the country to anger, frustration and disenchantment of Nigerian youths in the administration of the All Progressives Congress (APC) led Federal Government.
The party also noted that President Muhammadu Buhari’s “kidnapping as a business” comment was a direct admission of his failure in governance.
In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, PDP said that the explanation confirmed that President Buhari is aware that Nigerian youths did not vote for him in the February 23
presidential election.
“This self-confession by Mr. President is equally an admission that he has no solutions, and points to the ugly situation that would continue to confront the nation, if the stolen presidential mandate is not retrieved in the courts,” the party said in the statement.
It described as appalling that at a time when other world leaders were leading their youths to constructive and productive ventures in the development of their nations, Nigerian youths were being pushed into situations of anger, frustration and recourse to criminality.
“Under President Buhari, our national economy has continued to slide; over 30 millions Nigerians have lost their jobs and basic means of livelihood; businesses have continued to shut down; cost of essential goods and services have persistently soared, while purchasing power of citizens worsen.
“It is more disheartening that instead of finding solutions, Mr. President resorted to rhetoric and begging the question to the extent of describing criminality as a ‘new occupation and a business,'” PDP added.
The party said Nigerians were shocked at President Buhari’s insensitivity to the victims of the bloodlettings, kidnapping, banditry and other acts of violence in the country when he made a joke of the insecurity in the land by stating that losing weight is a sign that the
Inspector General of Police, Adamu Mohammed, was effectively tackling the security issues.
“It is most heartbreaking that at the time President Buhari was making a joke on the security situation, bandits were having a field day in communities in Zamfara State where they reportedly killed over 50 Nigerians, while many more compatriots are still held hostage by kidnappers in forests in various parts of our country.
“Such attitude to governance, especially on issues that have to do with the lives of Nigerians, is completely unacceptable and must be condemned by all,” the party stated.
