APC accuses PDP of deception, politicising security issues

The APC said in a statement issued in Lagos yesterday by its interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, that after deliberately excluding the party’s governors from the meeting called to discuss the security issues, the presidency and the PDP then engaged in outright disinformation and distortion of facts to make it look as if […]

The APC said in a statement issued in Lagos yesterday by its interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, that after deliberately excluding the party’s governors from the meeting called to discuss the security issues, the presidency and the PDP then engaged in outright disinformation and distortion of facts to make it look as if the APC governors deliberately boycotted the meeting.
‘’It is now clear that despite their inability to protect lives and property and stop the terrorists’ attacks in the country, the presidency and the PDP are not interested in any genuine efforts to end the worsening security situation,” Mohammed said.
“It is patently obvious that their aim is to make political capital out of the tragedy that has befallen Nigeria, rather than to ameliorate the cruel fate being daily suffered by the citizens,’’ he added.
The APC said the same presidency that invited all state governors to the expanded National Security Council meeting, which was announced through a statement on Wednesday, had no problem duping the party’s governors out of the meeting and turning it to a meeting of governors of the PDP and its appendage parties, only to shift the blame on the APC governors.
‘’The Kwara State Government confirmed that its Chief Detail received a call from the presidency to the effect that the meeting had been called off. Then, the Deputy Governor of Borno State, who had already arrived in Abuja for the meeting, also learnt that it has been called off. Curiously, the meeting that was announced publicly by the presidency was not even listed among the President’s official engagement for Thursday,” the statement noted.
It added that’’Why would the presidency engage in such a grand design just to make the APC governors look bad? Is this a part of the plan to shift the blame for the state of insecurity on the APC and to make the party look bad ahead of the 2015 elections and the preceding ones? Is this in furtherance of President Jonathan’s improper blame of the Governors of the worst-hit states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe for the insurgency in their states? Can any genuine efforts to resolve the crisis exclude the Governors of the three states?”
‘’The Presidency is playing a dangerous game by seeking to make political capital out of an insurgency that has claimed thousands of lives, and done incalculable damage to property and the economy. It is now clear that this Presidency has its eyes firmly fixed on benefitting from the insurgency, and that it had no interest in any genuine measures to end it,” the APC statement added.