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  • Updated: December 04, 2020

Insecurity: APC Leaders Encouraged Terrorism In The Past, PDP Claims

Insecurity: APC Leaders Encouraged Terrorism In The Past, PD

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has revealed that the leaders of All Progressives Congress (APC) encouraged terrorism while President Goodluck Jonathan was in power.

Making this accusation in a statement on Thursday, PDP said that President Muhammadu Buhari and APC should be held responsible for festering the violent killings of innocent Nigerians by terrorists.

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According to PDP, APC's admittance that the country under President Buhari is at the mercy of Boko Haram only confirmed that some leaders of the ruling party are in support of the activities of the terrorists.

Further revealing that while Jonathan was in power, APC frustrated the party's effort to fight terrorism, the statement by PDP read:

"The @OfficialPDPNig  has asked Nigerians to hold officials of the @MBuhari  Presidency and the anti-people @OfficialAPCNg  responsible for the festering violence and incessant killing of innocent Nigerians by terrorists.

"The PDP asserts that the confession by the @MBuhari  administration that our nation, under its watch, is at the mercy of terrorists, is self indicting; being the outcome of the overt and covert support given to terrorists by some unpatriotic @OfficialAPCNg  leaders for their selfish interests.

"The PDP recalls how the @OfficialAPCNg chieftain, as opposition leaders in the APC as well the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), openly showed sympathy to terrorists and took steps that frustrated genuine efforts by the then PDP government to fight terrorism.

"Nigerians can recall how in 2013, @OfficialAPCNg  leaders, then as ACN leaders, declared the proscription of terrorist groups in Nigeria as unconstitutional and even demanded that terrorists be accorded VIP treatment and should be brought to Abuja for negotiation in private jets; a development that sparked public apprehensions of their suspected links with terrorist groups.

"The @OfficialPDPNig  further recalls how the @OfficialAPCNg, as opposition, went on propaganda war to frustrate government’s effort towards procurement of weapons to fight terrorists, with some of them, who are now governors and ministers, accusing then Federal government of seeking to use the weapons to kill opposition members.

"The role played by @OfficialAPCNg  leaders to frustrate the purchase of weapon through South Africa connection is still fresh in the minds of Nigerians.

"Nigerians can also recall how the @OfficialAPCNg  deployed negative propaganda to scuttle efforts by the Jonathan administration to bring in mercenaries that would have assisted in the anti-terrorism war.

"Nigerians would also recall how these @OfficialAPCNg leaders truncated the training of the elite troops in Belarus by claiming that they were being trained as snipers to kill opposition members before the 2015 general election.

"Our party also recalls how, ahead of the 2015 elections, the @OfficialAPCNg leaders encouraged hoodlums to fight against the system, with one of them, who is now a minister, emboldening hoodlums and insurgents to resist our security agencies with machine guns.

"Even in government, the @OfficialAPCNg  administration has failed to effectively equip our security forces, as recently confirmed by its officials, thereby jeopardizing the lives of our gallant troops fighting in the fronts, while the Commander-in-chief, who promised to lead from the fronts, continue to issue unhelpful rhetorics from the safety and comfort of the Presidential villa.

"The public can recall how the @OfficialAPCNg  Federal Government and @OfficialAPCNg  governors have been making excuses for terrorists, negotiating with, and even paying and pampering the killers of our compatriots.

"Nigerians also know how the @OfficialAPCNg  administration had declared these marauders and bandits as deserters from Gaddafi’s army and yet ask Nigerians not to fight back but accommodate them as neighbors.

"Such subtle support for terrorism was witnessed in the bizarre attempt by the @OfficialAPCNg-led administration to blame the 43 innocent Nigerians beheaded by terrorists in Borno state on Saturday.

"Moreover, the @OfficialAPCNg  has failed to account for thousands of thugs and hoodlums it imported into our country to unleash violence on Nigerians during the 2015 and 2019 election; many of who are feared to be part of the bandits and marauders ravaging our nation today.

"The @OfficialAPCNg should end its hide and seek and come clean on its connection with the escalated activities of terrorists, bandits, kidnappers and killers in our country." 

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