Buhari chasing re-election despite genocide, ravaging poverty – PDP chairman, Secondus
Secondus has challenged President Muhammadu Buhari to face the reality
that more Nigerians are dying and getting poorer under his watch and
stop chasing second term in office.
Reacting to the massacre of hundreds of innocent souls in Barki Ladi
local Government Area of Plateau State at the weekend and Brookings
Institution's latest report on Nigeria's poverty level, Secondus said
that nothing could justify the continued blood flow in the country.
In a statement from his media office signed by Ike Abonyi, Secondus
said that the federal government and its security agencies appear to
have switched off on the killings and now concentrating on how to
intimidate people and win election at all course.
"Otherwise how do one explain the genocides in Plateau that was
carried out for over five hours and there was no interruption from any
security body in a distance less than 20 kilometers from Jos the state
capital, headquarters of an Army and Airforce divisions with Police,
Directorate of State Services DSS, Civil Defence and others."
"If we have government that cares, this horror should not happen to
innocent citizens for whatever crime more so that the report showed
that the victims were harmless worshippers and residence sleeping in
their homes.
"Intelligence no longer works in this country that such massacre would
be planned in Plateau that is prone to violence without any hint to
avert it", he said.
According to the PDP boss, the truth is that APC led federal
government is consumed in its nefarious plans to enforce themselves on
Nigerians when it's obvious to all discerning minds that they have
lost the goodwill lavishly poured on them by Nigerians in 2015.
Secondus added that while APC federal government "is scheming to
thwart the will of Nigerians in 2019, its poor governance has brought
Nigeria scandalously as the nation with the highest number of
extremely poor people over taking India, a country with over
1.3billion people against Nigeria's estimated 200million."
According to the Brookings report, the number of Nigerians in extreme
poverty put at about 87 million increases by six people every minute
all a fallout of poor governance in the last three years of APC
Secondus said, "The situation is under APC administration is seeming
irredeemable from all indications yet they continue to shift the blame
of their their ineptness to PDP".
He expressed regret that the energy, expertise and equipment at the
disposal of the nation's intelligence agencies are being wrongly
deployed to monitor and harass perceived opponents at the expense of
the state.
The opposition leader further warned that the signs are apparent that
what APC federal government wants is to ground the country ahead of
2019 so that the coast will be straight for them to cruise to power at
the expense of Nigerian voters.
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