National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus on Wednesday led Presidential aspirants of the party on a condolence visit to Sokoto State where bandits killed 39 people recently.
The aspirants included former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, former Governors of Jigawa, Kano and Sokoto states, Suleiman Lamido, Ibrahim Shekarau and Attahiru Bafarawa as well as the former Minister of Special Duties, Kabiru Turaki.
DAILY POST reported that scores of Nigerians were some days ago killed after bandits attacked villages around Gandi in Rabah Local Government of Sokoto State.
Condoling Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, Secondus speaking on behalf of the aspirants said the visit of President Muhammadu Buhari to the Netherlands was needless because his country was passing through serious pain as people were being killed almost on daily basis.
According to him, the president had failed woefully in the area of security.
“The current federal government has failed woefully. It is important that Nigerians should look on to God for intervention, not the government again.
“People now live in perpetual fear because they don’t know where the killing will happen next.”
“Nigeria cannot give an accurate figure of the death recorded from January to date because what they see across the nation every day is blood flowing and bloodletting which had never happened in the history of the nation.
“This is why I lead this high powered delegation to come here and console you. We know you are in pain and we are in pain too because whatever happened in Sokoto, touches across the nation because we are our brothers’ keepers. It is really a sad event,” he said.
Responding, Tambuwal said the state had been peaceful until that unfortunate event which also displaced thousands of people.
He further thanked them for the visit, adding that the state government and security agencies were doing their best to ensure it doesn’t happen again.
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