The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has accused the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, of being complicit in Sunday’s terrorist attack and killing of worshippers at St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo, Ondo State.
The main opposition party also said it was appalled by the lame and disconnected press statement by President Muhammadu Buhari, saying it was lacking in “presidential empathy, concern, assurances and commitment expected of a Commander in Chief.”
In a statement, Monday, in Abuja, Hon. Barr. Debo Ologunagba, National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, added that “the feeble and insensitive statement by the Presidency is a further confirmation of the tacit sympathy for terrorism by the APC administration.”
According to Ologunagba, “in saner climes the president would personally address the nation on the gruesome murder of many citizens under his care. President Muhammadu Buhari’s personal silence is deafening and points to allegations in the public space that terrorists are enjoying tacit accommodation from the highest level of the APC administration.
“It is indeed unpardonable that as terrorists were murdering our citizens in Owo, President Buhari was busy in the comfort, luxury and safety of the Presidential Villa, having a dinner with APC leaders and conducting political meetings aimed at perpetuating APC’s fraudulent, insensitive, inhumane and vicious government on hapless Nigerians.”
The party further stated that “such actions by the APC and President Buhari, who has woefully failed in his promise to lead the fight against terrorism from the front, continue to embolden terrorists to carry out more terrible attacks on our citizens.
“The inexcusable stance of the APC also lends credence to the fears already expressed by Nigerians that there are planned orchestration of crisis by the APC in various parts of the country so as to derail the scheduled 2023 general elections.
“Nigerians will recall that the APC has never forcefully condemned terrorism attacks in Nigeria since the revelation that the APC imported outlaws from neighboring countries to assist it to rig the 2019 general elections.
“For the umpteenth time, our Party calls out the APC to come clean on the pact it has with terrorists for which it is sacrificing the lives of innocent Nigerians.
“The APC must not continue to use Nigerians as expendables in their ignoble pact with terrorists. Such is reprehensible, atrocious and must not be allowed to continue in our country.”