While condemning the act which it
described as barbaric, monstrous and extremely wicked, the PDP said the
attacks were politically motivated.
National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, said this in a statement, in Abuja.
The statement partly read, “The PDP
weeps. We are indeed grief-stricken. Our hearts go out to the bereaved,
especially those who have been orphaned and widowed and those now
deprived of their bread winners by this evil act. We share in their
pain, their anguish and their loss and pray that those behind their
grief must not escape justice.”
Metuh said the attacks could not be
justified under any guise adding that it was the handiwork of an
opposition desperate to undermine and discredit the present
administration and make the nation ungovernable for President Goodluck
Jonathan.
He said, “We stand by our earlier
statements that these attacks on our people are politically-motivated by
unpatriotic persons, especially those in the APC, who have been making
utterances and comments, promoting violence and blood-letting as a means
of achieving political control.
“Nigerians are also aware of utterances
by certain APC governors which have been aimed at undermining our
security forces and emboldening insurgents against the people.”
In response, the APC through its Interim
National Publicity Secretary of the party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, accused
the ruling party of trying to give the opposition a bad name in order
to hang it.
The party described as despicable the
PDP’s attempt to trivialise a very serious issue and make the opposition
the fall guy for its own egregious failure.
In a statement he signed, Mohammed said,
“The PDP and the government it leads at the centre should realise that
this issue is beyond politics and partisanship, and should reach out to
other stakeholders to help find a way to end the insurgency that has now
defied all measures, including a state of emergency.
“Trying to blame the opposition for the
attack, as the harebrained PDP has irresponsibly done even when the
bodies of the victims are still lying in the morgue, cannot advance a
genuine push to end the insurgency."PUNCHNG
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