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  • Owo attack: APC’s silence confirms its complicity – PDP insists

    Owo attack: APC’s silence confirms its complicity – PDP insists

    The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said the All Progressives Congress (APCsilence )’s on Sunday’s gruesome terrorist attack and killing of innocent worshippers at St. Francis Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo State, confirmed the ruling party’s complicity in the terrorist attack across the country.

    The PDP also chastised President Muhammadu Buhari for what it called a “lame and disconnected press statement.”

    The opposition party said in a statement issued Monday by its National Publicity Secretary, Hon. Debo Ologunagba, that the presidential statement lacked the empathy, concern, assurances, and commitment expected of a Commander in Chief.

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    The PDP also called the statement feeble and insensitive, saying that “the statement by the Presidency is a further confirmation of the APC administration’s tacit sympathy for terrorism.”

    “This is because, in saner climes, the President would personally address the nation on the gruesome murder of many citizens under his care,” the statement said in part. President Muhammadu Buhari’s silence is deafening, and it points to public allegations that terrorists are receiving tacit accommodation from the highest levels of the APC administration.

    “It is truly unforgivable that, while terrorists were murdering our citizens in Owo, President Buhari was busy in the comfort, luxury, and safety of the Presidential Villa, having dinner with APC leaders and conducting political meetings aimed at perpetuating APC’s fraudulent, insensitive, inhumane, and vicious government on hapless Nigerians.”

    “Such actions by the APC and President Buhari, who has woefully failed to lead the fight against terrorism from the front lines, continue to embolden terrorists to carry out more heinous attacks on our citizens.”

    “The APC’s inexcusable stance also lends credence to Nigerians’ fears that the APC is planning to orchestrate a crisis in various parts of the country in order to derail the scheduled 2023 general elections.”

    The PDP also claimed that the APC has never strongly condemned terrorist attacks in Nigeria since the revelation that the party allegedly imported outlaws from neighbouring countries to help it rig the 2019 general elections.

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    The PDP has challenged the APC to come clean about their support for terrorists.

    The opposition party also urged Nigerians not to despair, but to remain united and vigilant.

    Prior to the 2023 general elections, the PDP promised to rescue and rebuild the country from the APC’s misrule.

  • Ondo church attack: NANS sends message to Buhari, Akeredolu

    Ondo church attack: NANS sends message to Buhari, Akeredolu

    The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has strongly denounced the attack on St. Francis Catholic Church in Owa-luwa Street, Owo town, Owo Local Government Area, Ondo State, and the barbaric massacre of numerous parishioners there.

    In a statement, the students’ group urged the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government and the Ondo State Government, led by Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, to address the escalating insecurity in Owo town and guarantee that those responsible for the “massacre” are brought to justice.

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    In a statement, Comrade Oladimeji Uthman, Executive Director, Campus Intervention, NANS National Secretariat, denounced how gunmen attacked the church on Sunday during its Pentecost Sunday liturgy and shot several people to death.

    “It is with great sadness that we report that while the Holy Mass was in progress, unknown gunmen attacked and opened fire on members of the church, killing several and injuring dozens more.” This is heartbreaking. Uthman described the situation as “inhumane, sarcastic, diabolical, and pitiful.”

    He expressed concern because Owo Local Government Area is home to one of the state-owned tertiary institutions, Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo, and asked security forces to guarantee that the attackers do not get away with it.

    “Waking up to such heartbreaking news as this is an unanticipated development is terrible and cruel.” The culprits of the Owo atrocity must be held accountable.

    “The student body’s leadership condemns this satanic action in its entirety, since this regrettable episode is highly condemnable and constitutes a severe threat to our collective survival as a people.”

    “Since a matter of urgency, the chiefs of security agencies should deploy their personnel to the community to monitor and restore normality, as the lives of our students studying in Owo town are very important to us as a leadership.”

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    “We urge all Nigerian students in Florida to be law-abiding, alert, and not to take the law into their own hands.”

    “NANS also expresses condolences to the families of those who have lost loved ones in this tragic incident and provides relief to the injured,” he said.