PDP Queries Redeployment Of Soldiers 24hrs Before Incident

The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned the spate of insecurity and the audacity with which terrorists ravage the country unchallenged under the ‘rudderless’ All Progressives Congress (APC) administration.

The party said 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 security command and control structure under the failed, ineffective and uncoordinated Buhari-led APC administration.

The national publicity secretary Hon Debo Ologunagba said 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 Nigerians are no longer safe under the APC.

PDP added that the escalated spate of terrorism across the country has heightened apprehensions of complicity by the APC to open up the nation to more terrorist attacks with the view to stalling the 2023 general elections.

“The failure of the APC administration to act on the intelligence provided by the Directorate of State Services (DSS) which on Tuesday July 5, 2022 reportedly warned of an impending attack on the Kuje Correctional Facility gives credence to fears by Nigerians of complicity at the very high level of the APC administration.

“This is in addition to further reports that soldiers deployed to the precincts of the Kuje Correctional Facility and who had become familiar with the terrain were redeployed 24 hours before the terrorists attacked,” the party said.

On his part, PDP presidential candidate, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, has blamed the recent attack on the inability to enthrone a regime of law and order to deter offenders.

Atiku, who reacted to the Kuje Prison attack, said he was concerned about the escape of detained terrorists and hardened criminals and their threat to the lives and property of residents in Abuja and its environs.