Crime & Security“Nigeria Is Bleeding But APC Government Is On Vacation”, PDP Reacts To Abuja-Kaduna Train Attack

ABUJA — The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned in strong terms what it called continuing insecurity and near worthlessness of the lives of Nigerians under the Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC) government as evidenced by the vicious terrorist attack on innocent Nigerians travelling in a Kaduna State-bound train on Monday.

Gunmen had on Monday night attacked a Kaduna-bound train with explosives and gunfire, killing eight people, injuring many and abducting others. The train was said to have nearly reached Rigasa, its final stop.

The gunmen were said to have blown up the rail track after which they launched an attack on the passengers.

Following the incident, some people have been reported dead, while others have been hospitalized.

In a statement on Tuesday signed by its spokesman, Debo Ologunagba, the PDP said the latest attack has confirmed its stand that the security command and control coordination structure under President Buhari has collapsed.

Describing the ruling party as “insensitive and cruel”, the opposition party insisted that the complicity of silence by the Buhari administration on Saturday’s airport attack emboldened the terrorists to assault the train on Monday; a development which, it posited, also validates PDP’s position that the APC administration has conceded sovereignty over parts of our country to terrorists.

The statement reads, “The PDP condemns in the strongest terms the continuing insecurity and near worthlessness of the lives of Nigerians under the insensitive and cruel All Progressives Congress (APC) government as evidenced by the vicious terrorist attack on innocent Nigerians travelling in a Kaduna State-bound train on Monday.

“The successful ambush of the train on the Abuja-Kaduna service by terrorists who killed many Nigerians, abducted scores of others in an operation that lasted for over an hour, again confirms PDP’s stand that the security command and control coordination structure under President Buhari has collapsed.

“More alarming is the fact that this particular attack took place within two days of the deadly terrorist attack on the Kaduna International Airport on Saturday, March 26, 2022, in the same Kaduna State controlled by an APC government.

“The continued silence and obvious helplessness of the Buhari Presidency on these deadly attacks on our nation’s key transportation sectors raises apprehensions of possible complicity at the very top level of the APC administration.

“It is callous and unfortunate that the APC government, in its usual insensitive nature attempted to suppress information by keeping mute over 24 hours after this horrendous attack which claimed the lives of promising Nigerians among whom was a young medical doctor, Dr. Chinelo Megafu who was fatally shot in the ill-fated train travel.

“Nigerians can recall the confession by a former APC leader that these assailants are terrorists brought from neighbouring countries by the APC as “political mercenaries” to rig the 2019 general elections.

“In 2021, over 10,366 Nigerians were killed by terrorists, with over 2,900 abductions in countless terrorism-related attacks in which no fewer than 964 security agents were killed, as revealed by SB Morgen (SBM) Intelligence Report published in the Guardian Newspaper of Thursday, January 3, 2022.

“Those killed in 2021 represent a scary 47% increase in the 7063 massacres by terrorists in 2020.

“More alarming is that the killing spree has continued in 2022 unabated. More than 536 Nigerians have been killed by terrorists since the beginning of this year. In the first three weeks of January 2022, about 486 Nigerians were killed by terrorists as reported in Premium Times of Sunday, January 23, 2022.

“Again, only last week, 50 innocent Nigerians were reportedly hacked to death by terrorists in the same Kaduna State!

“This is beside the hundreds of Nigerians, including students who were abducted by terrorists with many of them still languishing in their abductors’ den.

“The question to ask is, how many more Nigerians can our nation afford to lose because of the recklessness and arrogance in failure of the APC? Nigeria bleeds, families are hurting, parents mourn and agonize, yet the APC government is on vacation.”