APC Calls For Security Summit Over Abuja Explosion
Barely 24 hours after a bomb blast left 71 people dead in Abuja on Monday, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has urged the Federal Government to urgently convene a national stakeholders’ security summit to help find a lasting solution to the spate of mindless killings in the country.
According to a statement issued in Lagos Monday evening by APC's Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party expressed shock and sadness at the savagery of the attack, while condoling with the families of the dead and prayed for a quick recovery for the injured.
The statement stated further that it was obvious that all efforts so far to tackle the insurgency in the country had not yielded much fruits, meaning that the PDP-led Federal Government lacked the capacity and had clearly run out of ideas on how to tackle the violence.
* President Jonathan at the scene of the bomb blast that occurred in Abuja Monday morning
“It is time for new thinking, new ideas to stop this insurgency before it consumes all of us. The attack, right on the outskirts of Abuja which has been spared this kind of spectacular strike since 2011 means those behind it are getting bolder and bolder, and it’s time to stop them,” it said.
APC said in the national interest and in the spirit of bipartisanship,it was willing and ready to be part of any positive efforts to end the daily loss of lives and the damage to property that seemed to have hit anew high since the beginning of this year.
* APC Interim Scribe, Lai Muhammed calls for a summit over the spate of bomb blast in the country
The party described as despicable the PDP’s attempt to trivialize a very serious issue and make the opposition the fall guy for its own egregious failure.
“The PDP and the government it leads at the centre should realize that this issue is beyond politics and partisanship, and should reach out to other stakeholders to help find a way to end the insurgency that has now defied all measures, including a state of emergency.
“Trying to blame the opposition for the attack, as the harebrained PDP has irresponsibly done even when the bodies of the victims are still lying in the morgue, cannot advance a genuine push to end the insurgency,” the party said.
Source: Legit.ng
