Oppositions are using bombings to divert peoples attention from Jonathan’s achievements, says PDP
Category: Nigerian National News
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday alleged that
those against President Goodluck Jonathan were behind bombings in the
country, adding that the bombing are used to divert peoples attention
from the presidents achievements.
The ruling party said this while reacting to Monday’s bombing at the
School of Hygiene in Kano, Kano State, as well as the attacks on some
Kaduna communities, in which many innocent Nigerians were killed and
several others wounded.
A statement by the National Secretary of the PDP, Prof. Wale Oladipo,
said the ruling party was deeply worried by the spate of mindless
attacks, which he said were aimed at intimidating the people, destablise
the polity and destroy the future of the nation.
While the party condemned the attacks on Nigerian citizens, Oladipo
asked the citizens to note the pattern and timing, which he said,
betrayed a trend tailored against the PDP and the Federal Government.
The statement said in part, “We have observed that it has become a
recurrent decimal that whenever the PDP or the Federal Government
records or is about to record a major milestone, insurgents launch
attacks on the people. The most recent being the Kano and Kaduna
attacks, which came at the wake of PDP’s victory in Ekiti State last
Saturday and ahead of the ground-breaking and unveiling ceremony of the
Centenary City by President Jonathan on Tuesday.
“Was it a mere coincidence that bombs went off in Nyanya, Abuja, on
Monday, April 14, 2014, killing over a hundred innocent citizens at a
time the world focused on Nigeria for the hosting of the 25th World
Economic Forum in Abuja?
“Was it also a mere coincidence that the Chibok schoolgirls were abducted by insurgents the following day? Were these attacks
part of a plot to divert attention from the gains of the Forum and
paint the Federal Government as incompetent and the nation as unsafe?”
He also asked whether the Nyanya bombing had been deliberately timed
to stop the PDP rally, which he said, was already scheduled for Tuesday,
April 16, in Kano, following apprehension by some opposition elements
that the rally might expose and spell doom for their political hold on
the state.
Oladipo also asked Nigerians to decipher whether the insurgents that
attacked and bombed Jos Terminus Market killing hundreds of Nigerians on
Thursday, May 20, 2014, two days before the shelved pdp mega rally in
Ekiti State, was a mere coincidence or not?
He said the attack might have been planned to ultimately stop the rally for fear that it would soar the popularity of the PDP in the state.
Oladipo said, “Was it also a mere co-incidence that these attacks
scaled up after President Jonathan performed the ground-breaking
ceremony of the Second Niger Bridge in March? Was it also meant to
divert attention from that achievement?
“We wonder if it was also a coincidence that insurgents attacked the
Mamudo Government Secondary School in Yobe, killing 41 school children
and a teacher on July 6, 2013, a day after President Goodluck Jonathan
flagged off the rehabilitation of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway?”
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