Former Vice President and candidate of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) in the February 23 presidential election, Alhaji Atiku
Abubakar, has told President Muhammadu Buhari and the governing All
Progressives Congress (APC) to take responsibility of the heightened insecurity
in the country.
Atiku was reacting to a report purportedly released by a
United States based Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), called Centre for
Diplomacy and Democracy.
In the said report, the NGO had blamed the opposition in
Nigeria for the killings, kidnapping, bloodletting and banditry across the
country.
However, in a statement Tuesday by the Atiku’s Media
Adviser, Mr. Paul Ibe, the former Vice President described the report as a
contrived write-up by a fictitious NGO.
Atiku said it was a demonstration of how low the
administration has descended in deepening divisions and promoting instability
in the country.
The statement said, “The contrived report by a fictitious
non-governmental organization in the United States is the deepest low that
Muhammadu Buhari administration has gone in causing further division and
promoting instability in Nigeria.
“Anyone versed enough in the protocol of international NGOs
will discern without much ado that the particular report by a faceless, insipid
organization known as ‘Centre for Diplomacy and Democracy’ was contrived with
express mobilization from officials of the Buhari administration in a shameless
and disingenuous attempt to find a jejune explanation for the rising rate of
insecurity in Nigeria.
“Our investigation has revealed that there is no such report
as being touted and no such body called ‘Centre for Diplomacy and Democracy’.
Americans will never write ‘Centre’. They will write ‘Center’ in conformity to
the American English usage”.
The PDP presidential candidate said it’s distasteful that
the Buhari administration has resorted to passing the buck, rather than have a
self-introspection and admit to the world that its policies and actions are
responsible for the divisions in the country.
He knocked the President and his team for choosing to employ
the services of a faceless NGO to blame the opposition for its own ineptitude.
“We must remind President Buhari that the buck stops on his
table and his infantile style of looking for whom to blame for his failures
will not obliterate his abysmal record of performance in the past four years.
“The Buhari administration and the ruling APC are renowned
for propaganda stunt and double-speak. Sadly, it does not matter to them the
disturbing number of criminalities happening on a daily basis in Nigeria.
“In their warped thinking, the performance rate of security
chiefs during times like this is determined by how much weight the Inspector
General of Police has lost.
“The question to ask is: how would the APC have reproved a
President who makes such careless remarks on national security at a time when
insecurity in the country has assumed epidemic proportions?
“President Buhari and the APC have shown without equivocation
that the job at hand is overwhelming for them. And because they lack the basic
clue on how to tame the bogey that they have created, they now scamper around
like school kids who have caused an upset in a highly sensitive science
laboratory.
“Nigerians don’t pray for a President who passes the buck.
All they want is a President who can hold the bull by the horns and get the job
done. After all, President Buhari took an oath to defend lives and property of
the citizens, which is the primary responsibility of every government”, Atiku
added.
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