Jos bombing: PDP criticises APC for holding a political rally in Ekiti

The PDP National Working Committee (NWC), has criticised the All Progressives Congress (APC) for holding political rally in Ekiti a day after the May 20 twin bomb explosions in Jos.

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Mr Olisa Metuh, National Publicity Secretary of the party, at a news briefing on Wednesday in Abuja, said the APC had remained “hypocritical in the face of loss of lives caused by the insurgents”.

Metuh, who spoke at the end of a meeting of the NWC, expressed shock that while the nation was still mourning the death of those who died in the Jos and Kano bombings, the APC was engaged in a political rally in Ekiti.

He said that while the PDP called off its rally in Ekiti in honour of the victims of the Jos and Kano bombings while the APC was celebrating in the same state.

This, the party spokesman said, was more worrisome as the debris of the bombings was yet to be cleared.

Metuh said that it was ironic that the APC which had lost its voice found it whenever there was a bomb blast in the country.

“This gives us concern and we are bringing it to the consciousness of Nigerians for them to judge,’’ he stressed.

Metuh declared that rather than join forces with the Federal Government to fight acts of insurgency in the country, the APC had engaged itself in blame game and instigating the people against the government.

He claimed that the APC was engaging in propaganda and misinformation, adding that Nigerians would not be deceived.

He cautioned Nigerians and the international community to be wary of the APC which, he said, had vowed to make the country ungovernable.

“APC is the major beneficiary of terrorism in this country. We stand by our statement that APC celebrates terrorism.

“We didn’t say APC bombed Nyanya, Kano or Jos. What we said is that APC by their actions and utterances, promote violence.

“If they do so, they cannot shy away from the fact that they fueled violence,” Metuh maintained.

The PDP spokesman said that even in the face of the country`s present challenges, the PDP was a better alternative to Nigerians even though the party had not lived up to the expectations of all.

“We are a developing democratic country. Even in developed democracies, things are not perfect.

“The truth is that even if we had made mistakes, Nigerians know that APC and the opposition is not an option.

“Nigerians are left with the only choice of supporting the PDP the only true national party,’’ he said.

He said that the APC was made up of tribal and religious group that had nothing to offer the people. (NAN)

 

Jos bombing: PDP criticises APC for holding a political rally in Ekiti

Abducted Girls: Cancel your political visit to Adamawa - APC tells Jonathan

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to cancel the political rally being planned for him by the Adamawa PDP for Tuesday, saying the President cannot and should not be celebrating when over 200 schoolgirls are missing.

“We hope and pray that our daughters are released safely even before Tuesday, 29 April when the rally is to be held, but until then, it is insensitive and indecent for anyone, least of all the President who is the father of the nation, to engage in any celebratory outing under any guise,” the party said in a statement issued in Lagos on Thursday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.

The statement advised the President not to allow what he did 24 hours after the Nyanya bombing repeat itself .

“All decent men and women were riled that President Jonathan went dancing at an illegal campaign stop in Kano and popping champagne corks at a birthday celebration in Ibadan when the smoke was yet to clear from the scene of the Nyanya bombing.

“The President should not repeat the same mistake, if indeed he considered that to be one. He should see the missing girls as his own daughters and stop forthwith his illegal campaign rallies,” APC said.

The party said the ongoing bickering over the site of the rally in Adamawa, close to the scene of the sad abduction of the girls, is distracting from what should be a concerted national effort to find the girls and reunite them safely with their families.

“For a President whose grovelling aides have likened to Nelson Mandela, Barack Obama and other great leaders in a patently blasphemous campaign, he should take time to ask himself how Obama would have reacted to one missing girl from any school in the US, not to talk of over 200 missing girls.

“Does President Jonathan honestly believe that Mandela, in his days as President, would have been campaigning when his compatriots are being daily bombed or abducted? Sycophancy has no limit, especially in an environment where many will disown even their children for pecuniary gains, but President Jonathan must rise above those who are justifying his insensitivity by saying the government cannot shut down so as not to give victory to Boko Haram.

“We are not saying the government should shut down. But the President must shut down all celebratory public outings and all political campaigns until our missing daughters are safely found and returned to their homes,” it said.

Abducted Girls: Cancel your political visit to Adamawa - APC tells Jonathan