Pantami: Presidency supporting terrorism - PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has waded into the Isa Pantami controversy. Yesterday, April 22, 2021, the party said the Presidency’s support for embattled Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, confirms the federal government supports terrorism.

A statement released by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, revealed that Nigerians are traumatised at the alignment between the presidency and the Isa Pantami.

According to the PDP, following the allegation against the Minister of Communications, government ought to have relieved Isa Pantami of his appointment as a minister and “hand him over to the appropriate agency for deradicalization.”

“Our party holds that this has further exposed why the Buhari Presidency has failed to decisively confront terrorism as well as why terrorists, bandits, kidnappers and insurgents are emboldened to ravage our nation and massacre our compatriots.

“It is inexcusable that the Buhari Presidency is showing grave insensitivity to the fact that thousands of Nigerians have been massacred, maimed and horrified; that hundreds of communities have been devastated and that our nation has been under siege because of the actions and public comments by individuals like Isa Pantami.

“The PDP asserts that it is pertinent to point out that Isa Pantami had initially denied his support for terrorist groups and only admitted after he was overwhelmed by evidence thus rubbishing the lame claims by the Buhari Presidency that the minister had turned a new leaf 20 years ago,” the party stated.