National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus has alerted Nigerians and the international community that the killings and destruction of property in the country is allegedly being designed by President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress, APC-led government to heat up the polity to enable them carry out an agenda of abusing the democratic process and the rule of law ahead of the 2019 elections.
He called on the Presidency to immediately halt the senseless killings going on in Benue state before it degenerates into a national crisis.
The PDP national chairman condoled with the Benue state governor, Samuel Ortom and the Catholic Church in Nigeria over Tuesday morning’s brutal murder of two Catholic priests and 17 other worshippers of St. Ignatius Quashi Catholic Church parish in Ukpor-Mbalom in Gwer local Government area of the state.
He spoke in a statement signed by his media adviser, Ike Abonyi, and made available to DAILY POST, on Wednesday.
Secondus said that the continued bloodletting in Benue and other parts of the country and the apparent inability of the government to stem the tide raises a lot of concerns on the future of the country.
The statement reads, “From whichever angle you are witnessing what is happening in this country, one thing is agreeable that this country is sliding dangerously.
“Nigerians and the global community have continued to watch as all the tenets of democracy are being eroded and giving way to dictatorial tendencies.
“In the last one week we have watched as disturbing indices continue to crop up ahead of the forthcoming general election with APC administration either unconcerned or involved in a tactical endorsement of such act.”
Secondus admonished security operatives as professionals to always bear in mind the words of the former US President, Theodore Roosevelt that “patriotism means to stand with the country. It does not mean to stand with the President”.
The party chair continued, “I find it unexplainable that some group of gunmen should hold a state to ransom since January killing and maiming citizens and destroying their houses and the security operatives appear helpless.
“Where are the military operatives that carried out Python and Crocodile dances in South East and South South Region respectively lately brandishing their might to less dangerous citizens and who have been unable to tackle the Benue killings.
“How can anybody expect Benue state for instant to contribute its own share of the $1b security votes when the nation security architecture is not designed to protect their people?
“If we are to give in to the President’s assertions lately that these killer herdsmen are foreigners trained by late Libyan leader, Muamour Gadhafi, where then lies our pride as a nation that a dead Gadhafi could leave behind such deadly force that a living President and its army have no answer to.”
Secondus ended by calling on the APC administration to accept that under their watch, the country has collapsed irreparably and there is no evidence of the existence of government in the land.
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