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Kaduna Bombing: PDP, APC continue Trading Blame by luigiajah(m): 6:19am On Jul 28, 2014 |
The ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and opposition All Progressives Congress (APC), weekend clashed over the bomb blast which targeted a former head of state, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), in Kaduna. The PDP leadership, yesterday, said the APC could not exonerate itself from insurgency incidents in some parts of the country, while an APC senator, Professor Olusola Adeyeye, was blunt in declaring that the PDP should take responsibility for what he called “the assassination attempt”on Buhari. Asking the PDP to accept responsibility for the attack on Buhari, the APC Senator representing Osun Central, Adeyeye said, yesterday, that no one else could have been responsible for the attack but the ruling party. Speaking with newsmen in Osogbo, Osun State capital, Adeyeye, the Vice Chairman, Senate Committee on Education, stated: “Boko Haram has not claimed responsibility for the attack on Buhari. From all indications, Muslims were not the ones who attacked him, neither were they Christians. “I am sure those who attacked Buhari were sponsored by the PDP. “Anyone who knows Buhari will know that he is a devout Muslim. So, Muslims could not have launched any attack against him. He was not attacked by Christians too. The only people that could be suspected are the PDP,” said Adeyeye. The PDP, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, said the APC had been promoting insurgency through the actions of some of its leaders on the grounds that the insurgents were after President Goodluck Jonathan and the PDP. “If the APC leaders had joined other well-meaning Nigerians in condemning acts of terrorism at the early stage, those behind them would not have been bold enough to get to the current alarming level,” the statement adds. The ruling party described as laughable and lame the attempts by the APC to use the Kaduna bomb attacks to absolve itself of blame for encouraging insurgency in the country. According to PDP, the statements by the APC and its governors were failed attempts at image laundering. It claimed that APC’s true identity as a party supportive of violence and disunity in the country was already well known. “Nigerians will recall that.. Continue reading @ http://skyreloadz.tk/forum2_theme_110758710.xhtml?tema=173 |
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