APC Reacts May Day Nyanya Bomb Blast, Setting Presidential Committee

The opposition party #1, the All Progressives Congress (APC), tagged May Day bombing in Nyanya, FCT Abuja, as cowardly and incomprehensible act, added that such a barbaric operation would never be justified. 

The party announced its position by a statement dated May 4, 2014, Sunday, issued in Lagos by the Interim National Publicity Secretary of the party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.

The statement emphasised that the fact that terrorists were able to deliver a bomb to the same area for the second time in less than three weeks was a distress call for President Goodluck Jonathan to provide much-needed leadership instead of shifting blames.

The APC noted that insurgents were back in Abuja after almost three years of their last attack in the city, which prove Jonathan’s administration was going in the wrong direction.

The main opposition force stated it was high time for the President and Commander-in-Chief to show his leader’s abilities, rather than “quietly egging on those who stupidly believe these insurgents are being sponsored by the opposition and some other ill-defined people to discredit the government”.

The party further noted the government had made a laughing stock of itself by setting up a fact-finding committee on the missing girls some clear 17 days after the girls were abducted.

It would be recalled that after April 14 bomb blast in Abuja the APC made a declaration that Jonathan’s Administration was out of ideas on tackling security issues. That statement and the reply by the Peoples Democratic Party triggered a war of words and mutual accusations between the two main political powers of the country. They were more or less stopped by Muhammadu Buhari’s statement on April 22, 2014.

Source: Legit.ng