The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the attacks on the advance convoy of President Muhammadu Buhari in Katsina State and Kuje Medium Security Custodial Centre in Abuja have shown that the country’s security structure has collapsed.
It said the attacks further confirm that President has “lost control of the security of the nation, and Nigerians are no longer safe under the APC government.”
The party said this via a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Hon. Debo Ologunagba, a copy of which was made available to The Conclave on Wednesday.
The statement read: “The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) condemns in the strongest possible term, the spate of insecurity and the audacity with which terrorists ravage our country unchallenged under the rudderless All Progressives Congress (APC) administration.
“The simultaneous terrorist attacks on the advance convoy of President Muhammadu Buhari in Katsina State as well as the Correctional Facility in Abuja, the nation’s capital, underscore the collapse of our security command and control structure under the failed, ineffective, and uncoordinated Buhari-led APC administration.
“The terrorist attack on President Buhari’s convoy in his home State of Katsina as well as the ferocious invasion and the freeing of hundreds of terrorists and criminals from the Kuje Correctional Facility further confirm that Mr. President has lost control of the security of the nation and that Nigerians are no longer safe under the APC.
“The escalated spate of terrorism across the country has heightened apprehensions of complicity by the APC to open up our nation to more terrorist attacks with the view to stall the 2023 general elections.”