The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned the refusal of the President Muhammadu Buhari led-Presidency to expose the names of the sponsors of Boko Haram and other terror groups in Nigeria.
The opposition stressed that Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) government are giving Nigerians the impression of ‘official cover for terrorists and bandits pillaging the nation’.
In a statement which was made available to Africa Daily News, New York on Tuesday, PDP spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan berated the government for saying it would not expose the identity of terror masterminds.
Africa Daily News, New York recalls that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) had revealed the names of six Nigerians funding Boko Haram in a list of more than 50 individuals and entities.
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‘The decision of the APC-led government to cover the identities of sponsors of mindless mass killings, maiming, rapping, kidnapping of our compatriots as well as the endless violent marauding of our communities under the APC watch, validates our stand that such individuals have connections with the APC.
‘This unpatriotic stance by the Buhari Presidency raises serious national anxieties of high-level complicity in the administration and further explains the reported compromising of our security system in the escalated killings and acts of terrorism in our country in the last six years under the APC.
‘Nigerians can see why the APC-led administration has failed to take decisive steps to tackle terrorism, why it prefers to negotiate with terrorists and even makes case for them, instead apprehending and prosecuting them, as witnessed in the beheading of rice farmers in Borno state.
‘The PDP had always alerted of a connection between the APC and terrorists ravaging various parts of our nation and how the APC, as a party, had always failed to forcefully condemn acts of terrorism in our country.
‘Nigerians can recall how the APC vehemently defended and still habours the Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, a self-confessed terrorism apologist, despite national outcry and demand for his sack.’
The PDP added that the APC has failed to account for bandits, thugs and hoodlums imported from neighboring countries to unleash violence on Nigerians and muscle the 2019 elections.
The party maintained that if the APC and its administration have nothing to cover, they should publish the names of terror backers ‘instead of this vexatious desperation to provide official cover for them’.
AFRICA DAILY NEWS, NEW YORK
