APC-PDP: Stop playing politics with bandits, insurgents caused by your Maladministration
Joel Oladele-Abuja
The Ruling All Progressives Congress in a statement signed by its National Secretary, Sen. John James Akpanudoedehe has warned the leading opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to desist from playing politics with “The evil activities of bandits, insurgents and other criminal rings which had their roots in PDP’s shabby handling of their criminal activities during their formative stages.”
The party scribe described the suggestion by PDP that the President Muhammadu Buhari’s government is insensitive to the heinous activities of bandits in parts of the country as not only being politically motivated but also “callous and insensitive to victims and gallant troops battling to end their criminal activities.”
He added that “The action has further exposed PDP as unpatriotic, banal and a wobbling opposition.”
“The regrettable attempt to turn a tragic situation into an object of politicking crosses the line of political decorum. True to form, the PDP continues to expose its desperate politics in which all is fair, including unguarded statements mocking the travails of citizens and efforts of security services to score political points.”
“While the PDP wallows in its delusions to score cheap points, the President Buhari-led APC administration has strengthened our security services, particularly the Armed Forces through military procurement and strategic training which has led to great successes against insurgents, bandits and kidnappers.”
“This includes the dispatch of high-level security/assessment delegations and delivery of relief items to affected citizens by the National Disaster Management Agency (NEMA).
“A case in point is the recent bandit attack in Sokoto State. Hours after the visit to the state by the federal delegation, our gallant Armed Forces, elements of the Department of State Services and the Nigeria Police Force operations which neutralized dozens of the bandits and kidnappers, restoring calm in the affected area and the government of Sokoto state commendation of the federal government’s prompt deployment of elite troops who smoked out the bandits and eliminated many of them.” The statement reads further.
The APC therefore assures Nigerians that “President Buhari has not and will never relent in ensuring normalcy in all parts of the country.”
