APC Replies Secondus, Says PDP Seeking Relevance After Election Loss.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has faulted the statements
made by the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP), Uche Secondus, on insecurity in the country.

APC National Publicity Secretary, Lanre Issa-Onilu, described
the remarks by Secondus as an attempt by the main opposition party
to seek relevance following its loss at the poll.

“It is just an attempt by the PDP to find a way back to the
front page of newspapers and to be relevant in the news,” he said
on Friday during his appearance on Channels Television’s Politics
Today.

The APC spokesman added, “It would have been unnecessary for any
response at all to come from us as the ruling party but I suspect
that the national chairman of the PDP may have stumbled on one of
the statements they wrote pre-election.

“Because it sounded more like some of those campaign materials
that were not used or that have been used repeatedly; for which the
voters passed a verdict in the last election.”

Earlier, Mr Secondus addressed a press conference in Abuja where
he condemned the killing of a Nigerian and a British national by
gunmen in Kaduna State.

The PDP national chairman had also decried the rate of
insecurity in the land, saying Nigerians had never lived in such
great fear and trembling for their lives.

But Issa-Onilu insisted that the ruling party would not join
issues with the opposition, noting that there was nothing relevant
to argue about.

According to him, Nigerians are aware of who caused the problems
and who is trying to find a solution to them.

The APC spokesman added that rather than engaging in such an
argument, the ruling party was busy with how to ensure that the
safety of lives and properties of the people was guaranteed.

He said, “At this stage, what we are focused on is how to ensure
that all these problems that were created for over 16 years of PDP
maladministration; that they no longer exist and we have made
tremendous progress.”

“In this country, we all know what this country was before the
APC came; we all know the tremendous steps we have taken and the
progress we have made so far.

“We are focused on that and we are focused on governance; we are
focused on policy and implementation of our policies,” Issa-Onilu
stated.

On his part, an aide to the PDP presidential candidate and
former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, disagreed with the claims
that his party was desperate to be relevant.

Mr Phrank Shuaib who was also on Politics Today wondered how
anyone with a conscience would align with the position of the APC
spokesman.

He alleged that the number of deaths recorded under the present
administration was much and all the Federal Government has done was
to keep making promises.

“It is ludicrous to listen to this kind of vituperation coming
from a ruling party because the lives of our people are very
important to us,” Shuaib said.

He added, “It is unfortunate that this government is playing
politics with the lives of our people. Security has been a
challenge in this country under this present administration.”

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