The statement of Bamanga Tukur, the chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that PDP is not a security agency and is therefore not to blame for the crisis of insecurity in the country is the clearest indication yet of the party’s cluelessness on handling the matter and other related ills in the country, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has said.
According to ACN, the chairman of the “biggest non-performing party in Africa” has finally come to terms with what has been said for a long time, that the PDP lacks the wherewithal to preside over Nigeria, with the depth of its craving for security and development.
“What the PDP chairman is saying, in essence, is that his party is no longer fit to rule and that Nigerians should look elsewhere if indeed they want a government that will ensure the security of their lives and property,” ACN’s National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said in a release issued on Wednesday. “Thank you, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, for speaking from the heart and admitting that your party, the PDP, has finally reached the end of its tether.”
ACN lamented that it is inconceivable that a man of Tukur’s standing would fail to appreciate the powers and responsibility of a ruling party.
“The PDP sired the President Goodluck Jonathan-led Federal Government that controls the security agencies in the country, and the party’s chairman is not unaware of this fact,” the statement read further. “If, therefore, he says the party should not be blamed for the insecurity stalking the land, he definitely knows what he is saying, which is that the ‘PDP is clueless.’”
It urged Nigerians to take their destiny in their own hands by using every democratic means to get the PDP out of their lives, having wasted 13 years and billions of naira since the country’s return to democratic rule in 1999.
“The insecurity that has now reached a level at which daring gunmen will attack the police and the military, the very institutions the country relies upon to ensure its internal and external security, is a reflection of the deep rot in other spheres of life in Nigeria,” it added. “To be fair, the rot did not start in 1999. But 13 years is a long enough time for a party that is worth its name to make an appreciable effort to turn things around.”
The opposition party then concluded that the situation is worse today than it was 13 years ago, and that if the PDP will not accept responsibility for the country’s woes, “it means it is finally ready to get the heck out of the scene to allow capable hands to take charge.”
