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PLATEAU KILLINGS: PDP alerts of plot to hide culprits

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PLATEAU KILLINGS: PDP alerts of plot to hide culprits

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has reacted to the accusation that it sponsored the recent killings in Plateau State that allegedly left 218 persons dead.

The party called on Nigerians not to be deceived by the accusation allegedly made by the Buhari Media Organisation (BMO), claiming that it was an alleged plot by the Presidency and its “chorus boys” to politicise the killings and engage in utterances that tend to “derail investigations, provide cover for culprits and scuttle efforts by security agencies to apprehend those behind the dastardly act.”

The opposition party in a statement on Saturday by its national secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, said that the efforts to robe the PDP with the killings were diversionary, callous, wicked and obtrusive.

“The PDP advised the BMO to stop its hallucinations and tell its principal, President Muhammadu Buhari, to live up to the responsibility of his office by stopping the bloodletting and callous murder of innocent citizens in various parts of our country.

“The PDP described as unfortunate and highly condemnable that members of the BMO, if truly they are citizens of Nigeria, could seek to politicize the gruesome killings of compatriots in Plateau and other states, instead of confronting President Buhari and charging him to live up to his billing or assisting him in finding solution to the gruesome daily bloodlettings.

“The BMO, out of frustration of its inability to further beguile Nigerians into believing that Buhari is our 21st Century Messiah, is resorting to baseless, lame and political accusations against the PDP.

“Thus, the BMO has further confirmed the fears of Nigerians that the Buhari administration is groping and has no concrete plans or strategy to apprehend the killers, safeguard the lives of our citizens and protect the territorial integrity of our dear nation,” the statement read in part.

Speaking further the PDP called on Nigerian to recall how on June 25, 2018, “immediately the news of the Plateau killing broke, the Presidency, before any security investigation, issued a release wherein it attempted to offer explanations on the killings and tried to blame some persons it referred to as ‘locals’.”

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It added, “On Thursday June 28, 2018, while Nigerians were mourning and urging security agencies to track down the killers, the Presidency, without exhibiting any form of empathy to the bereaved, issued yet another statement, attempting to politicize the killings by making morbid comparisons of those killed under various administrations and stating that ‘wanton killings had been with us for a while’, a comment that tended to weaken the morale of the security officers.

“Nigerians may further recall that President Buhari had, in March this year, directed that anybody who attempted to play politics with the handling of security would be dealt with. We now wonder why his presidency and support group have resorted to attempts to politicise the Plateau killings, a development that has raised suspicions that they have something to hide.”

 

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