PDP betates Presidency for blaming opposition on killings

By Lateef Ibrahim, Abuja

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has faulted the allegation by the Presidency that the opposition is responsible for the failure of the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Federal Government to stem the killings by marauders in the North Central.
The opposition party said that the allegation has further confirmed that the Buhari administration is completely confused, incompetent and lacks the capacity to secure our nation.
The PDP, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, pointed out that it is totally atrocious that instead of waking up to its responsibility or accepting failure and seeking help, President Muhammadu Buhari and his officials have been resorting to blame game in the face of daily bloodletting and mass killings in our country.
The statement by the opposition party reads, “The allegation by the Buhari Presidency that the opposition is responsible for the failure of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Federal Government to stem the killings by marauders in the North Central has further confirmed that the Buhari administration is completely confused, incompetent and lacks the capacity to secure our nation.
“It is totally atrocious that instead of waking up to its responsibility or accepting failure and seeking help, President Muhammadu Buhari and his officials have been resorting to blame game in the face of daily bloodletting and mass killings in our country.
“Only recently, President Buhari ran to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby to blame deserters from late Muammah Gaddafi’s Libya as being responsible for the killings.
“In the last three years, the Buhari Presidency had placed blames on past administration, demographic changes, climate change, conflict over cattle routes, decreased farmland space against increased number of cattle and human population. Today, it is the opposition that is responsible for their failure to secure the people.
“It is unfortunate that instead of defining and facing the challenges confronting our nation, the Presidency is busy chasing straws thereby failing to nip in the bud a dangerous dimension in our national history.
“President Buhari and his dysfunctional All Progressives Congress (APC) must be held responsible for the escalation of the killings across country in the last three years; a direct consequence of their incompetence, harsh policies, nepotic proclivities and general failure in governance.
“We know that the latest allegations against the opposition are in furtherance of the plot by the failed APC to set up innocent Nigerians as a face saving stunt to divert attention from their failures.
“The fact remains that President Buhari has failed after winning power on the basis of false promises but more heartrending is this attempt by the Presidency to play politics with human lives.
“As a party, we stand with all Nigerians, especially the victims of the killings under the APC. We invite all Nigerians to join hands with the repositioned PDP as we work towards a national rebirth and the enthronement of a government that truly cares for the people come 2019”, it said.