The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) declared the public statements made by the Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, stating its stand to be that the All Progressives Congress (APC) administration know the whereabouts and plans of the bandits and have purposely refused to take any necessary action.
The party said the revelation also by the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, that some members of the APC-led Federal Executive Council frustrated his request to install security surveillance equipment to avert terrorist attacks on the Kaduna-Abuja rail track confirms that the APC administration is complicit.
El-Rufai had been quoted as saying, “We know where their camps are, we know where they are, the SSS has their phone numbers, they listen to them and they give me report…”
Similarly, Amaechi had said, “We knew what the problems will be. We knew we needed to have digital security equipment … I warned that lives will be lost and now lives are lost … When you come with sincerity to the government and your colleagues are stopping you, it is annoying.”
The PDP, however, described the statements made by El-Rufai and Amaechi as troubling.
“These revelations from high-ranking APC public officials who are in the
position to know is troubling as they are unequivocal confirmation that APC leaders are in league with terrorists,” he said.
A statement by Debo Ologunagba, the National Publicity Secretary of the party, said, “It is therefore not surprising that President Muhammadu Buhari insists on retaining a self-confessed terrorist apologist, Dr. Isa Pantami to continue to head the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy which is indispensable in any meaningful fight against terrorism in the country.”
The statement reads in part: “Nigerians will recall that the PDP has variously and consistently requested for a total overhaul and change of guard at the Ministry of Communications, which advice, like every other from Nigerians have been ignored, arising from the culture of arrogance in failure of the APC.
“The fact that the Buhari-led government atrociously refused to act despite having full intelligence on the whe