As Nigerians prepare to celebrate Christmas, members of the PDP Caucus in the House of Reps, worried by the state of the nation, have read the riot act to Mr. President.
They are urging President Muhammadu Buhari, elected on the platform of the APC, to rescue Nigeria from the relentless assault of bandits and terrorists or resign from office.
PDP lawmakers enraged by the activities of killers who are apparently roaming free alleged that the President and members of his team have failed in tackling problems of growing insecurity.
The inability of the nation’s President and Commander-in-Chief to find solutions to the constant harassment of defenseless Nigerians, the PDP lawmakers noted, has turned Nigeria into a killing range.
Leader of the Caucus, Rt. Hon. Kingsley Chindah representing Obio/Akpor Federal Constituency berated President Buhari and the APC for doing a bad job of keeping Nigerians safe in statement addressed to the media.
Chinda observed that the bloodletting unleashed by the hostage-takers has gone unabated, “with Buhari showing complete incapacity to arrest the situation or bring the killer squads who roam the vast swathes of the country to book.”
He stated the state of lawlessness “is spreading across every acreage of citizens’ habitation and turning our once quiet and peaceful homesteads, hamlets, villages, towns and cities into funeral parlours and cemeteries.”
“Everywhere we turn, today, our dead are either being prepared for burials by families whose hearts are torn up by grief, or they are being mourned by families who can’t tell where the corpses of their loved ones are or where the killer squads will turn up next”, the lawmaker remarked.
“Here is the stark truth of the Nigerian condition under Buhari’s ruinous rule: citizens are in a prolonged, severe and intense state of mourning that has kept them stuck in acute anguish, pain and trauma.
“In his recent remark at the sidelines of the COP-26 Conference in Scotland, United Kingdom, General Buhari boasted.
“We will defeat them, one highway, one rail link- and one job- at a time”. It is over three weeks since the Conference ended, no stone of resistance has been mobilized by the General against bandits, terrorists and kidnappers.”
Noting that bandits, terrorists and kidnappers have continued to unleash a reign of terror on helpless citizens, taking not “one highway, one rail link – and one job – at a time”, Chindah stressed that whole communities and regions have become easy targets, ravaged by rampaging hostage takers, bandits and terrorists.
“The communities of Sabon Birni of Sokoto State, Kagara of Niger State, Karim Lamido of Taraba State, Katoge and Yanturaku of Katsina State, and of the north east, north west, south south and south east are witnesses to the reigns of terror.”
Chindah chastised the President, accusing him of concerning himself about his personal and family safety, and the safety of his lackeys.”
He said such an attitude is.”typical of rulers in history who suffered from messianic complex”, who think their “personal survival is tantamount to the survival” of their nation.
“It is this delusion that makes the governance of our country dire and costly under his rulership. There’s something more ruinous about his delusion: he promotes himself beyond his talent of statecraft.
”Like Caligula, the delusional Roman emperor in history, who ordered that ships be lined up in a double anchor to form a bridge, so he could ride his horses across the gulf of Baiae to prove the prophesy of Thrasyllus the astrologer wrong that he had no chance of emerging as an emperor “than riding over the gulf of Baiae with horses”, General Buhari is deploying scarce state resources against peaceful protesters who are calling attention to the killings in the North to prove that he is an emperor.”