Don’t Politicise Nigerians’ Concerns Over Insecurity, PDP Tells Buhari

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has warned the Presidency under Muhammadu Buhari not to attempt to politicize or trivialize the calls for the resignation of its government.
The party, in a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbodion, says Buhari must accept this apolitical verdict, which they claimed transcends ethnic, political and religious boundaries.
According to the statement, President Muhammadu Buhari has already admitted failure by expressing “surprise” at the level of insecurity across the nation under its watch as a response to its evident failure to guarantee security of lives and property in the country.
The statement read in parts, “The PDP notes that the fact that the Presidency resorted to hauling insults, hate language and threats against patriotic Nigerians, including senators, instead of addressing issues of security before the parliament, shows that indeed, the Buhari Presidency has no answer to the litany of insecurity issues under its administration.
“It is instructive for the Buhari Presidency to note that the Senate Minority Leader, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, whose voice resonated in the chamber of the Senate, spoke the mind of majority of Nigerians who had become bullied, harassed and despondent in the face of escalated insurgency, bloodletting, killings and other acts of violence that have pervaded our nation”.
The Peoples Democratic Party said the call for President Buhari’s resignation was the mind of millions of Nigerians spoken by the Minority Leader of the Senate, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, and urged the Presidency to borrow the antecedents of President Jonathan’ s tolerance and shun plots to intimidation or victimisation of those who speak for the people .
“Senator Abaribe spoke on behalf of millions of Nigerians who have been killed, orphaned, widowed, maimed, rendered childless and homeless, as well as others who daily live in anguish, pain and fear in the face of worsening insecurity under the failed Buhari administration.
“On account of this, the PDP counsels agents of the Buhari Presidency to perish any thoughts of harassment, setup, frame-up or victimization of Senator Abaribe who rose to the occasion through the constitutionally guaranteed privilege of the parliament to speak on behalf of ordinary Nigerians” the party stated.
“The PDP, therefore, urges the National Assembly to stand with Nigerians and resist every attempt that will make it succumb to any form of harassments, intimidations and innuendos from paid agents and cabal in the Presidency who have shown that the interest of ordinary Nigerians is not their priority” the party added.
Similarly, the Peoples Democratic Party, yesterday, said it totally supports the call by the Senate Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe, on President Muhammadu Buhari to resign over his supposed inability to curtail the rising insecurity in the country.
The PDP National Chairman, Uche Secondus, made this known during an interactive session with journalists in Abuja, yesterday.