ATIKU TO BUHARI: Stop Blame Game, Tackle Insecurity

Former Vice President of

Nigeria and PDP Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar has lamented the worsening state

of insecurity in the country and called on the government to

show more results in its responsibility to protect the people

instead of blaming opposition politicians for its own

failures.

Reacting to the latest killing of scores of people in Gandi

District of Rabah local government of Sokoto State, Atiku

said he was disturbed by the uncontrolled violence by

bandits who continue to kill poor villagers with impunity.

“I am genuinely concerned about the large scale losses of

lives in Sokoto, Zamfara and other states under siege by

bandits, and I totally condemn such reckless disregard for

the sanctity of life”, Atiku said

According to him, “our people deserve to be secure and

should not be made to lose hope in the face of repeated

violence from bandits who continue to defy government

warning.”

He blamed the Buhari administration for politicising the

issue. He said instead of accepting responsibility and taking

prompt action to protect the victims, the Buhari

administration was looking for scapegoats to divert

attention from its own failures.

“I’m disappointed by the recent allegations by the Buhari

government that the PDP leaders are using the so-called

looted funds to finance insecurity in the country. Blame

game doesn’t help the victims of the banditry in Sokoto and

other places. The people want action and not official

rhetoric”, Atiku stated further.

The PDP presidential candidate explained that it is

unhelpful and regrettable for a sitting government to be

blaming the opposition for insecurity in the country instead

of taking responsibility.

“Tell me why we should kill our own people in order to gain

power. Tell me why the PDP should harm the very citizens

whose support it needs to unseat the incompetent APC

administration”, he queried.

Atiku said conspiracy theories by the APC leaders are not

useful strategies to protect the people against mass

murderers, adding that conspiracy theories are signs of

laziness and lack of vision and effective strategies to

protect the people.

The PDP presidential candidate advised the APC

government to be courageous enough to accept

responsibility for its lack of vision and for running out of

ideas on how to govern the country.

“Between 2014 and 2015, the APC leaders used conspiracy

theories to gain power by accusing former President

Jonathan of financing Boko Haram, and today they ar

using the same conspiracy theories against PDP in order to

desperately hang on to power”, he reminded.

Atiku however said that Nigerians are now wiser and can’t

buy the APC conspiracy dummy any longer because the

government will be judged by its performance in the area of

security adding that “patience with failure and despair is not

an option for the voters”.

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