The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described as iniquitous, the
attempt by President Muhammadu Buhari to use the heartbreaking abduction
of innocent schoolgirls in Dapchi, Yobe state, to score cheap political
points.
The party expressed shock that President Buhari could do so right before our grief-stricken parents.
The PDP also said the President’s morbid comparison of the Dapchi
incident to similar heartrending abduction of schoolgirls in Chibok,
Borno state, in 2014, appears pregnant with meaning, especially in the
face of pervading speculations and conspiracy theorems that trailed the
Dapchi abduction and its associated conflicting reports.
The PDP, in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary,
Kola Ologbondiyan, on Thursday, said the comments by the President as
well as his aloofness to the people in the troubled states, so far
visited, have all confirmed that the belated visits were mere
afterthoughts orchestrated for political reasons and not out of any
genuine concern for the victims.
The party also noted that more disheartening is the attempts by the
President to politicize killings in troubled states and particularly the
abduction of our innocent Dapchi daughters, right in the presence of
their distraught parents.
When the President went to Taraba, he made a morbid comparison of
more people being killed in one state than the other, as if human life
is valued in figures. This time, he went on an ill-conceived political
ego venture and self-praise with the abduction of our Dapchi daughters.
The PDP agrees no less with Nigerians that this development is
worrisome. This is particularly so given the sequence of events that
trailed the incident.
Nigerians can recall how the Presidency deployed a team of officials
led by the minister of information and culture to Yobe state, ostensibly
for a media stunt. What followed was the release of a false rescue
report by yet to be ascertained individuals or agency and statements by
sponsored groups praising the Presidency for illusionary ‘swift rescue
operations’ while the abductors were fleeing deeper into unknown
recesses.
Nigerians need to know; is there a heinous script in which our
innocent daughters in Dapchi have become pawns? Who is behind the
initial false rescue report and what point was it meant to serve? Was it
designed to promote a political stunt? Moreover, why has the Presidency
not taken critical steps to unravel the mystery behind the report and
those who scripted it?
These are some of the reasons we urged the National Assembly to
institute an independent inquest into the Dapchi abduction and make its
findings public.
Furthermore, we still wonder why the parents of the Dapchi girls were
not allowed enough opportunity to have direct interaction with the
President during the visit to Yobe State.
Was it to bar them from taking the President to task on issues
surrounding the abduction, including the alleged removal of troops
before the attack as well as speculations and allegations of conspiracy
theorems which have been promoted by conflicting reports and
disagreements among government agencies and officials on the ugly
incident?
The PDP holds that issues of security and well-being of our people
must not be reduced to political drama for any reason and under any
guise whatsoever. Such is completely evil, iniquitous and unpardonable.
We therefore charge Mr. President to stop every action in this
direction as such is portraying our nation as inhumane, callous and
coldhearted.
Finally, we charge the Presidency and the APC to understand that
profane gimmicks cannot help their doomed re-election bid as Nigerians
have seen through their lies and propaganda and are now rallying with
the repositioned platform of the PDP to rescue our dear nation from the
painful misrule of the APC.
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