Again, PDP Challenges Buhari to End Killings ...Says he should appreciate those calling for security reform

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday charged President Muhammadu Buhari to go beyond his sympathy visit to Borno State and take decisive steps to end the killings in that state and other parts of the country. 

The party said in a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary,  Kola Ologbondiyan, that the booing of President Buhari in Borno State is a clear message to him that Nigerians hold him responsible for the escalated insecurity in the country.

PDP said the boos also showed loss of confidence in the Buhari presidency and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

The PDP demanded that the president should not limit his visit to Borno State but also visit other parts of the country, including Kaduna, Kano, Benue, Plateau, Yobe, Adamawa, Zamfara, Kogi, Niger, Taraba and other states to face the feelings of Nigerians as well as view the national devastation his poor handling of security and infrastructure has caused  Nigeria.

The party said it hoped that the visit to Borno State, which came only after the PDP and Nigerians criticised the president for his aloofness, particularly over the Auno killing last Sunday, is not part of the usual presidential media stunts that will not be followed with a corresponding action to track down killers and end terrorism.

 

It further charged the President Buhari to endeavour to go on subsequent visits by road in order to see and feel the agony Nigerians are being subjected to with the parlous state of the road infrastructure and security network under the “incompetent and unresponsive Buhari presidency and All Progressives Congress (APC).

"Our party holds that Nigerians do not deserve a distant president, who sits in the comfort of the presidential villa and luxury jets, and remains indifferent to the pains, anguish and torments that compatriots suffer on a daily basis.

"The PDP hereby calls on the president to quickly embark on these visits and monitor, on first hand basis, the damage which his administration has caused and for which Nigerians are demanding that he resigns and allow more competent hands to manage the affairs of our country."

PDP said it is only after these visits that the Buhari presidency would appreciate that those calling on him to rejig the security architecture mean well for the country.