Buhari, APC Leaders Encourage Terrorism In Nigeria – PDP

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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has indicted the President Muhammadu Buhari government and the All Progressives Congress, APC, of encouraging terrorism in Nigeria.

This came two days after Chief of Defence General Burutai stated that terrorism in Nigeria will last for the next 20 years. PDP’s spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan maintained that the Buhari-led APC is responsible for the killing of innocent Nigerians by terrorists. He stated that APC members in a bid to frustrate the efforts of former President Goodluck Jonathan once sympathised with terrorists.

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Ologbondiyan in a statement recalled how APC members, in 2013, frowned against the proscription of terrorist groups in Nigeria. The statement by Ologbondiyan reads partly:

‘The PDP recalls how the APC chieftain, as opposition leaders in the APC, as well the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), openly showed sympathy to terrorists and took steps that frustrated genuine efforts by the then PDP government to fight terrorism.’

‘Nigerians can recall how in 2013, APC leaders, then as ACN leaders, declared the proscription of terrorist groups in Nigeria as unconstitutional and even demanded that terrorists be accorded VIP treatment and should be brought to Abuja for negotiation in private jets; a development that sparked public apprehensions of their suspected links with terrorist groups.’

’PDP asked Nigerians to hold officials of the Buhari Presidency responsible for the festering violence and incessant killing of innocent Nigerians by terrorists.’

President Buhari has during the former President Goodluck Jonathan era stated that any attack on Boko Haram is an attack on the north.

He also regarded Boko Haram members as his misguided brothers.

Boko Haram has killed many Nigerians since they started operation but the killing of over 46 Famers in Borno state have drawn both national and international condemnation.

 

AFRICA DAILY NEWS, NEW YORK

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