Buhari Has Finally Surrendered to Terrorists, PDP Alleges

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday said the statement made by the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Lai Mohammed, that the federal government is not duty-bound to protect Nigerians from bandits, has confirmed apprehensions that the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Mohammadu Buhari presidency have finally surrendered Nigeria to terrorists.

The party called on President Buhari to personally address Nigerians in his own voice and not through his aides.

The PDP further stressed that the statement made by the minister is another clear evidence that Buhari is indeed absent; has completely abdicated the responsibilities of his office and capitulated to bandits.

“Lai Mohammed’s statement further revealed that the Buhari presidency has not been committed to combating banditry, but had, all along, been feeding

Nigerians with lies, propaganda and falsehood, while bandits are pillaging our country,” the party said.

According to a statement issued by the PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, the party said it is incredulous that the Buhari presidency, in its failures, is abdicating a responsibility exclusively vested on it by the 1999 Constitution (as amended) to operate all apparatus of national security-the police, military, paramilitary and all other armed services-to secure lives and property in all parts of the country.

The PDP said: “Perhaps Buhari and his minister of information need to be tutored that the Second Schedule (Exclusive Legislative List) clearly vested the control of all apparatus of national security on the federal government and not the states.