…Urges FG To Engage Strategic Stakeholders, Community Leaders
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has blamed the Maiduguri bombings on failure of government, saying that they are evidence of President Bola Tinubu’s lost battle to insecurity.
The party however, advised the Federal Government to move beyond rhetoric in security matters and engage strategic stakeholders, especially community leaders in the fight against terrorism.
The party in a statement on Tuesday signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Ini Ememobong, blamed the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led presidency for devoting more time, energy, and resources to the task of political genocide against the opposition, instead of deploying the same energy to combat the growing insecurity in the country.
The statement reads, “The recent multiple bombings in Maiduguri, resulting in at least 23 deaths and injuring more than 100 people, are another incontrovertible piece of evidence of the inability of the APC-led federal government to curb the growing insecurity in the country.
“This bombing is an unfortunate addition to the numerous acts of grave insecurity that have occurred under the watch of President Bola Tinubu, who was the loudest campaign voice for the APC, promising to end insecurity immediately if his party is elected. Sadly, 11 years later, insecurity has not only increased significantly in the Northeastern part of Nigeria; it has spread almost uncontrollably to many other parts of the country that were hitherto very safe and peaceful.
“Despite this glaring failure, the APC-led Presidency has devoted more time, energy, and resources to the task of political genocide against the opposition, instead of deploying the same energy to combat the growing insecurity that has become the lived reality and new normal of Nigerians. There is no one, including the President, who will not agree that our country was safer in 2015 than it is today.
“While we sympathise with the families who have been affected by this dastardly and most condemnable act, we call on the Federal Government to move beyond rhetoric in security matters and engage strategic stakeholders, especially community leaders, as part of a whole-of-society approach to combating insecurity.”
