Zabarmari Massacre: PDP Faults APC's Silence On Borno Attack

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has faulted the refusal of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to comment on the recent Zabarmari massacre that led to the death of at least 43 farmers in Jere local government area of Borno state.

PDP in a statement made available on its official Twitter page suggested that Buhari's failure to show empathy might have triggered the party's refusal to sympathize with the victims of Borno attack.

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The Party asked President Buhari to withdraw statement credited to Garba Shehu stating that the slain farmers were not cleared to visit the rice plantation.

Further asking President Buhari to rejig the country's security system, PDP asked the Nigerian leader to immediately sack all the service chiefs and replace them with competent hands.

"The @OfficialPDPNig  is alarmed by the reckless and bizarre attempt by the @MBuhari  Presidency to rationalize the gruesome beheading of 43 innocent Nigerians by insurgents in Zabarmari, Borno state.

"The @OfficialPDPNig  is outraged by the @MBuhari  Presidency’s claims that the farmers were killed because they failed to get clearance before going to their farms; a statement, which is also an admission that the @MBuhari  administration has been overwhelmed by terrorists and can no longer guarantee our compatriots a normal life.

"Our party submits that it is weird, reprehensible and repulsive that the @MBuhari  Presidency now seeks to turn itself into a mouthpiece of terrorists by this subtle attempt to rationalize the killing of innocent and hard working Nigerians.

"This unpatriotic stance smacks of support for acts of terrorism and mindless killing of our compatriots by a government whose Commander-in-Chief had promised Nigerians to lead the battle against insurgents from the front.

"Our party is forced to hold that attitudes such as the unpatriotic remark of the @MBuhari  Presidency embolden insurgents in their ceaseless attacks in our country.

"Such also provides further insights into the escalation of acts of terrorism in our country in the last five years.

"It is indeed shocking that the @MBuhari  Presidency has graduated from making bogus claims of having degraded terrorism to the embarrassing point of blaming unprotected and helpless Nigerians for falling victims of terrorist attacks. This, to say the least, is the height of leadership failure of the lazy, lethargic and incompetent @MBuhari  administration.

"It is therefore insensitive for the @MBuhari  Presidency to have shown this huge lack of empathy, which amounts to a spat on the grave of the slain as well as an unpardonable slap on the faces of the generality of mourning Nigerians.

"Perhaps this also informs why their party, the @OfficialAPCNg, has not deemed it fit to have a word of lamentation for the death nor consolation for the bereaved.

"Our party therefore calls on President @MBuhari  to immediately withdraw the offensive statement by his Presidency and apologize to Nigerians, particularly the people of Borno state.

"The @OfficialPDPNig  also restate our call to Mr. President to heed the demands by Nigerians to rejig our security architecture as well as replace his service chiefs with more competent hands in the interest of our nation," the statement by PDP read.

 

Terrorism: PDP Berates Buhari Presidency for Blaming Slain Farmers
…Says Remark Smacks of Support for Insurgency

The @OfficialPDPNig is alarmed by the reckless and bizarre attempt by the @MBuhari Presidency to rationalize the gruesome beheading of... pic.twitter.com/EZKaTQLION

— Official PDP Nigeria (@OfficialPDPNig) November 30, 2020