The Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP), Saturday advised President Muhammadu Buhari to accept the alleged
bitter truth over the report by the United Nations (UN) Rapporteur, saying that
various forms of insecurity have escalated under his administration.
It also told Buhari to seek
for help, alleging that the Buhari administration has no solution to the
alleged festering problems in the country.
This was contained in a
statement by the party’s spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan in Abuja.
According to the statement,
“Buhari should show humility and accept the bitter truth that poverty, internal
conflicts, bloodletting, banditry, kidnapping, insurgency, abuse of human
rights and general national insecurity have escalated under his divisive,
vindictive and repressive administration.
“The party says instead of
embarking on ego trip and picking a fight with the United Nation (UN) Rapporteur, Agnes Callamard, for highlighting the grave
security issues in our country, which are already in the international domain,
the Buhari Presidency should be seeking for help, seeing that it has no
solution to the festering problem.
“If anything, the UN
Rapporteur report only reinforces the positions of credible international
bodies including the United States Department of State, Amnesty International
(AI) and Transparency International (TI) which also reported cases of arbitrary
and extra-judicial killings, illegal arrests, arbitrary detention, torture,
festering violence, reported disappearances and abuse of human rights under the
Buhari administration.
The PDP further holds that
the UN report is a vindication of its stance as well as that of millions of
Nigerians that the ineptitude and repressive tendencies of the All Progressives
Congress (APC) administration under President Buhari are emboldening acts on
violence and fuelling impunity, division and intolerance in the polity.
“Today, Nigeria is becoming
one of the most insecure places to live. Citizens can no longer move freely
around their country as marauders, kidnappers, insurgents and bandits take over
the highways, pillage communities, kill and take citizens captive at will”.
Further, PDP alleged that
the Buhari Presidency would be doing a great disservice to Nigerians especially
those in communities are being ravaged by insurgency, banditry, kidnapping and
ethnic clashes should it fight persons and organisations that tell the truth
rather than seeking solutions.
Also, the PDP holds that at
the moment, what ought to be paramount to the Buhari Presidency should not be the sentiments of regime image but the welfare and security of vulnerable Nigerians.
It, therefore, cautioned
Buhari’s handlers on their alleged unguarded statements on grave national
issues.
Ologbondiyan added, “Buhari
should immediately accept responsibility for his failures and seek help since
he has not demonstrated the capacity to effectively led a nation as complex as
Nigeria at the moment.
“The truth can be bitter,
but in its acceptance lies the solution”.
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