By David Lawani
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has carpeted the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for its “insensitive and below the belt suggestions” of bandits and kidnappers’ activities across the country, noting that it is quite unfortunate for the party to have made such crass comments.
Sen. John James Akpanudoedehe, National Secretary APC Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) of the party, in a statement made available to journalists, stated that such comments were “heinous and callous.”
He bemoaned the attempt to convert teary circumstances to politically motivated ones, stressing such an act by the party amounts to “throwing caution to the wind instead of showing sympathy for the people who were affected by such tragedy.”
He said: “Suggestions by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that the President Muhammadu Buhari government is insensitive to the heinous activities of bandits in parts of the country should be seen for what it is — politically motivated, callous and insensitive to victims and our gallant troops battling to end their criminal activities.
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“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.
“The PDP 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, has exposed PDP as unpatriotic, banal and a wobbling opposition”, he said.
Continuing, the party scribe said: ” 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 neutralised 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 APC assures Nigerians that President Buhari has not and will never relent in ensuring normalcy in all parts of the country”, the statement reads.
