Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on
Saturday called on Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) to tell its principal,
President Muhammadu Buhari, to stop the bloodletting and callous murder of
innocent citizens in various parts of our country.
The party, which advised the BMO
to stop its hallucinations and tell its Buhari to live up to his responsibility
of his office, described the diversionary allegations by BMO that it sponsored
the killings in Plateau State as callous, wicked and obtrusive.
PDP, in a statement by its
Spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, further described as unfortunate and highly
condemnable that members of the BMO, if truly they are citizens of Nigeria,
could seek to politicize the gruesome killings of compatriots in Plateau and
other states, instead of confronting President Buhari and charging him to live
up to his billing or assisting him in finding solution to the gruesome daily
bloodletting.
“The BMO, out of frustration of
its inability to further beguile Nigerians into believing that Buhari is our
21st Century Messiah, is resorting to baseless, lame and political accusations
against the PDP.
“The BMO has further confirmed the
fears of Nigerians that the Buhari administration is groping and has no
concrete plans or strategy to apprehend the killers, safeguard the lives of our
citizens and protect the territorial integrity of our dear nation.
“We, therefore, urge Nigerians to
note the desperate, concerted and sustained moves by the Buhari Presidency, as
well as, its chorus boys to politicize the killings and engage in utterances
that tend to derail investigations, provide cover for culprits and scuttle
efforts by security agencies to apprehend those behind the dastardly act.
“Nigerians may recall that on June
25, 2018, immediately the news of the Plateau killing broke, the Presidency,
before any security investigation, issued a release wherein it attempted to
offer explanations on the killings and tried to blame some persons it referred
to as ‘locals’,” the party said.
PDP explained that on Thursday
June 28, 2018, while Nigerians were mourning and urging security agencies to
track down the killers, the Presidency, without exhibiting any form of empathy
to the bereaved, issued yet another statement, attempting to politicize the
killings by making morbid comparisons of those killed under various
administrations and stating that “wanton killings had been with us for a
while”, a comment that tended to weaken the morale of the security officers.
“Nigerians may further recall that
President Buhari had, in March this year, directed that anybody who attempted
to play politics with the handling of security would be dealt with. We now
wonder why his presidency and support group have resorted to attempts to
politicize the Plateau killings, a development that has raised suspicions that
they have something to hide,” the party said.
The party urged the security
agencies to invite the members of the BMO to provide information as principal
witnesses to the carnage that have taken place across our nation.
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