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General News of Saturday, 13 February 2021

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Insecurity: Wake up from slumber - PDP slams Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari

The Peoples Democratic Party, on Saturday, asked the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to wake up to his responsibilities as a leader to stop Nigeria’s slide into anarchy.

The main opposition party observed that under the President’s watch, sectional disagreements were degenerating into violent conflicts with attendant consequences on the peaceful co-existence of the country.

This was contained in a statement titled, ‘Nigeria Collapsing Under Your Watch, PDP Cautions Buhari…Urges Urgent Action to Restore Unity, Order,’ signed by the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan, in Abuja.

According to the PDP, the situation was being exacerbated by the insensitive, divisive and parochial approach to governance by the Buhari-led All Progressives Congress administration.

Ologbondiyan said, “The party laments the escalated sectional conflicts in various parts of the country; the bloody ethnic clashes currently raging in Ibadan, Oyo state in addition to similar clashes recorded in Benue, Taraba, Kogi, Plateau, Kaduna, Kano as well as other states of the federation.

“The PDP calls on President Muhammadu Buhari to note that the once cohesive and economically thriving nation handed over to him in 2015 is fast collapsing in his hands due to his failure to effectively manage the economy, inability to administer the complex political and sectional nuances of the nation as well as manifest lack of capacity to confront terrorists, bandits and kidnappers ravaging our country.

“Our party grieves that under the anti-democratic and anti-people proclivities of the Buhari-led APC administration, our once thriving country has come under grave tension to the extent that citizens have become nervous, agitated, lost faith in the polity, with individuals, communities, states and geo-political zones resorting to self-determination as a way of survival.”