Insurgency: PDP Urges Buhari To End Killings

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has charged President Muhammadu Buhari to go beyond sympathising with the people of Borno state and take decisive steps to end killings the country.

The spokesman of the party, Kola Ologbondiyan in a statement on Wednesday said the booing of the President also showed a loss of confidence in his administration and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

The PDP called on the President not to limit his visit to Borno state but to also visit other parts of the country, including Kaduna, Kano, Benue, Plateau, Yobe, Adamawa, Zamfara, Kogi, Niger, Taraba and other states to test the feelings of Nigerians as well as view the national devastation his poor handling of security and infrastructure has caused the nation.

The party hoped that the visit to Borno state, which it said, came only after the PDP and Nigerians criticised the President for his aloofness, particularly over the Auno killings on Sunday, was not part of the usual presidential media stunts that will not be followed with a corresponding action to track down killers and end terrorism.

The PDP further charged the President to endeavour to go on subsequent visits by road in order to see and feel the agony Nigerians are being subjected to, as a result of the parlous state of road infrastructure and security network under his administration.

The statement said, “Our party holds that Nigerians do not deserve a distant President, who sits in the comfort of the Presidential villa and luxury jets, remaining indifferent to the pains, anguish and torments that compatriots suffer on a daily basis.