PDP berates APC over silence on Owo massacre  

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday berated ruling the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) over the party’s silence on the “gruesome terrorist attack and killing of innocent worshippers at St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo, Ondo State, on Sunday.” The PDP was of the view that the silence of the APC was a show of complicity and implicit support for terrorism in the country.

The PDP in a statement by the National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, on Monday, protested it is appalling that the lame and disconnected press statement by the Buhari Presidency which did not demonstrate any presidential empathy, concern, assurances and commitment expected of a Commander-in-Chief, who should be a Comforter-in-Chief in the face of such horrific terrorist attack on the country.

The PDP declared: “the feeble and insensitive statement by the presidency is a further confirmation of the tacit sympathy for terrorism by the APC administration.

“This is because in saner climes the President would personally address the nation on the gruesome murder of many citizens under his care. President Muhammadu Buhari’s personal silence is deafening and points to allegations in the public space that terrorists are enjoying tacit accommodation from the highest level of the APC administration.

“It is indeed unpardonable that as terrorists were murdering our citizens in Owo, President Buhari was busy in the comfort, luxury, and safety of the Presidential Villa, having dinner with APC leaders and conducting political meetings aimed at perpetuating APC’s fraudulent, insensitive, inhumane and vicious government on hapless Nigerians.

“Such actions by the APC and President Buhari, who has woefully failed in his promise to lead the fight against terrorism from the front, continue to embolden terrorists to carry out more terrible attacks on our citizens.

“The inexcusable stance of the APC also lends credence to the fears already expressed by Nigerians that there is planned orchestration of crisis by the APC in various parts of the country so as to derail the scheduled 2023 general elections.

“Nigerians will recall that the APC has never forcefully condemned terrorist attacks in Nigeria since the revelation that the APC imported outlaws from neighbouring countries to assist it to rig the 2019 general elections.

“For the umpteenth time, our Party calls out the APC to come clean on the pact it has with terrorists for which it is sacrificing the lives of innocent Nigerians.

“The APC must not continue to use Nigerians as expendables in their ignoble pact with terrorists. Such is reprehensible, atrocious and must not be allowed to continue in our country.”

The PDP, therefore, called on Nigerians not to despair but remain united and on alert, promising that the party is taking firm steps ahead of the 2023 general elections in the mission to “Rescue and Rebuild” the nation from the misrule of the APC.