The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Nigeria’s opposition party, has said the President Muhammadu Buhari led All Progressives Congress (APC) government is vacationing while the country bleeds.
The party which was reacting to Monday night’s terrorists attack on an Abuja-Kaduna train in Kaduna State, noted that the country is in dire straits.
Recall that a train on its way from Abuja to Kaduna was attacked by gunmen in Kateri-Rijana area of Kaduna state on Monday night, killing at least nine people, while about 26 are injured with dozens missing.
The terrorists were said to have blown up the rail track after which they launched an attack on the passengers.
In a statement issued on Tuesday, Debo Ologunagba, PDP spokesperson, said the attacks show that lives have become meaningless under that current federal government.
“The PDP condemns in the strongest terms the continuing insecurity and near worthlessness of the lives of Nigerians under the insensitive and cruel APC government as evidenced by the vicious terrorist attack on innocent Nigerians travelling in a Kaduna State-bound train on Monday,” the statement said.
“The successful ambush of the train on the Abuja-Kaduna service by terrorists who killed many Nigerians, abducted scores of others in an operation that lasted for over an hour, again confirms PDP’s stand that the security command and control coordination structure under President Buhari has collapsed.
“More alarming is the fact this particular attack took place within two days of the deadly terrorist attack on the Kaduna International Airport on Saturday, March 26, 2022, in the same Kaduna State controlled by an APC government.”
The PDP said the government has done nothing to tackle the “killing spree” which has continued unabated in the country.
“The question to ask is, how many more Nigerians can our nation afford to lose because of the recklessness and arrogance in the failure of the APC? Nigeria bleeds, families are hurting, parents mourn and agonize, yet the APC government is on vacation,” the party added