APC, PDP Trade Words Over Gulak’s Murder

Following Sunday’s murder in Imo State of Ahmed Gulak by unknown gunmen, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of being excited at the deplorable security situation in the country.

In a statement on Monday, APC while expressing shock over the incident, stated that though the party “as all well-meaning Nigerians is calling for national unity to fight crimes,” the PDP on the other hand is “excited about the security incidents being perpetrated by evil-doers against the citizens.”

The governing party urged “relevant security agencies to leave no stone unturned in their efforts to track down and swiftly bring the perpetrators of this crime to justice.”

Meanwhile, in a swift reaction, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) condemned the APC’s position, accusing it of seeking to politicize the gruesome murder of a prominent Nigerian like Ahmed Gulak.

The party, which said that the incident happened in a state under the control of APC, added that the ruling party should have forcefully condemned the incident and give the APC government in the state marching orders to bring the culprits to book.

PDP, in a statement by its spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, said it stands by its findings and declaration that the APC and its leaders are responsible for the killings, bloodletting and acts of terrorism in the country.

The PDP asserted that the resort to blackmail, threats and attack on the PDP and other well-meaning Nigerians as witnessed in APC’ statement today (Monday), in which it attempted to trivialize, politicize and dismiss the alarming violence in the country, cannot deter the PDP from further exposing the atrocities of the APC and its leaders.

“Our party sternly berates the national leadership of the APC for seeking, in its press statement today, to politicize the gruesome murder of a prominent Nigerian like Ahmed Gulak, an incident that happened in a state under its control, instead of forcefully condemning that act and giving its government a definite marching order to bring the culprits to book.

“It is rather absurd and a mark of leadership failure that the APC is attacking the PDP for exposing its failures and complicity in the violence and killings in our country but has failed to provide answers to revelations that many of the bandits, terrorists and kidnappers ravaging our nation are political mercenaries it imported, as criminal thugs, to assist it to unleash violence on Nigerians during elections, ” the party said.