PDP Berates APC For Attacking Its Governors Over Call for Restructuring, Others

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has taken a swipe at the All-Progressives Congress (APC) for attacking its governors, over call for restructuring and devolution of power to states.

Recall that the governors had on Monday in Ibadan, Oyo State, insisted on ranching as the most viable solution to the herders/farmers clashes in Nigeria.

They had also called on President Muhammadu Buhari to summon an immediate meeting of the Nigerian Police Council to evolve and implement strategies to combat the present threats to the union, especially with respect to policing.

Addressing newsmen in Abuja on Tuesday, the spokesman of the party, Kola Ologbondiyan, said the PDP governors spoke the mind of majority of Nigerians across board, in proffering urgent measures that would end acts of terrorism and wanton killings in the country as well as guarantee the national unity and economic wellbeing of Nigerians.

“By criticizing the PDP governors’ meeting and their communique, the APC, as a party, has further showcased its internal failures in steering the ship of state on the right course thereby pushing our country towards a state of anarchy.

“The action of the APC has also confirmed the general opinion in the public space that the APC has lost touch with reality and as such is no longer in sync with the fears, anxieties and aspirations of Nigerians having lost total bearing with the essence of governance.

“It is only a fizzling political association like the APC, that would attempt to politicize and deride a clear consensus by Nigerians as expressed in the coming together of state governors, who are seeking for the restoration of sovereignty in a near hopeless situation.

“Nigerians are aware that the APC is always standing against genuine efforts to save the lives of our citizenry and securing our nation against terrorists, vandals and bandits.

“This latest act by the APC has finally exposed its connection with the prevailing insecurity ravaging our country under their watch,” the party said.

The PDP said only an insensitive state governor will cross his fingers and do nothing while his people are being ravaged by hunger and starvation just because he wants to be in the good books of a failed ruling party.

“In the same vein, it is only an unpatriotic governor that will continue to watch his nation disintegrate and fail to join patriotic citizens in seeking solutions just because he wants to be seen as being loyal to a failed ruling party,” the party said.