Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign
Organisation (PDPCO) says the All Progressives Congress
(APC), its presidential candidate, Major General
Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), Governor Kashim Shettima of
Borno State and the party’s National Publicity Director,
Alhaji Lai Mohammed, should be held responsible if the
abducted Chibok girls are not found.
It tongue lashed the leadership of the APC over what it
described as a flopped one-million-man-march organised in
Lagos, saying only 10,000 persons attended the
programme.
According to the PDPPCO, the development was an
indication that the APC and its National Leader, Asiwaju
Bola Tinubu, are no longer in control of Lagos State.
The campaign organisation was reacting to an APC
statement, yesterday, which described as callous, morbid
and insensitive the comments by President Goodluck
Jonathan that the abducted girls are still alive hinged on the
belief that Boko Haram had not displayed their bodies to
prove their death.
In
a
statement by the Director, Media and Publicity of PDPPCO,
Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, it noted that the APC and its
leaders were working against the recovery of the girls,
saying that while many Nigerians were happy with the
efforts of the military and Jonathan and the successes
recorded so far, the opposition party was not happy.
Fani-Kayode said, “Whilst the majority of Nigerians are
overjoyed by the fact that the President has given us hope
by saying that the girls are still alive, Lai Mohammed and
the APC are not happy.
“The truth is that they do not want those girls to be found
and neither do they care about their welfare or their safety.
We say this because this was a man, and a party that
complained and protested at the fact that Boko Haram was
proscribed by the Federal Government last year.
“Lai Mohammed proclaimed that the proscription was
unjust and unconstitutional. We have always believed that
Buhari, Lai Mohammed, Governor Shettima and the APC
know far more about the whereabouts of the Chibok girls
and the activities of Boko Haram than they have cared to
admit.
“Let it be clearly understood that if anything happens to
those girls and if they are not produced at the soonest, we
will hold Lai Mohammed, Buhari and the APC responsible”.
On the
one-
million-
man-
march
organised in Lagos, the spokesperson for the PDPPCO said,
“The fact that what the APC boasted would be a one-million-
man march could only attract about 10,000 persons is a
reflection of the pitiful state of delusion that they are
suffering from.
“They have lost touch with reality and with the people of the
state over whom they have maintained a wicked and
ungodly economic and political stranglehold for all of 16
years. But the people of Lagos have now seen through their
deception and have decided to reject them at the polls this
time round.
“The Lagos people have amply demonstrated their anger
against the APC and its leader.
“It is interesting to read that Tinubu asked the people at the
flopped march to march for their freedom. I agree with him
and the people will obey him by freeing themselves on April
11 from the political and economic bondage into which
Tinubu has put them since 1999”.
‘Deeply offensive’
In its statement, the APC, yesterday, had described as
callous, morbid and insensitive the comments by President
Goodluck Jonathan, that the Chibok girls are still alive
hinged on the belief that Boko Haram had not displayed
their bodies to prove their death.
In the statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary,
Mohammed, the party said it found the “comment deeply
offensive to human sensibilities rather than providing hope
and succour for the traumatised parents of the girls”.
It said a key role of Presidents everywhere in times of
tribulations and tragedies is to offer hope and be the
consoler-in-chief, not to make statements that will deepen
the suffering and sorrow of victims.
APC said one would have expected a President to speak on
the basis of actionable intelligence, not some twisted,
melancholic and offensive logic.
The party said the statement “played on the fears of the
parents of the girls and indeed of all Nigerians concerning
the fate of the girls, who have now been held in captivity for
over 300 days, with an impotent government unable to
rescue them”.
It said “all that the parents of the girls as well as all
concerned people around the world want to know is what
the Jonathan administration is doing to bring the girls home
safely and as soon as possible, not a depressing statement
about their bodies being displayed via a video by Shekau if
they had been killed”. CLICK HERE TO READ FULL AND TOUCHING NIGERIAN CELEBRITIES BIOGRAPHY AND SCANDALS
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