Expose terrorism sponsors if you are not complicit – PDP challenges Buhari govt

The main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has challenged the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari to expose the names of sponsors of terrorism in Nigeria.

In a statement released on Tuesday by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, said the PDP asserts that the refusal by the Buhari Presidency to expose the names of sponsors of terrorism in Nigeria vindicates its position that the All Progressives Congress (APC) government has been providing official cover for terrorists and bandits pillaging the nation.

Newsflash Nigeria earlier had reported that the Presidency on Monday had given the reasons why the Buhari government will not name and shame Boko Haram/ISWAP sponsors.

Recall that the Federal government had in May this year stated that it would soon begin the prosecution of some highly placed Nigerians suspected to be financing terrorism in the Northeast.

Newsflash Nigeria had reported that the United Arab Emirates authorities in the week identified six Nigerians as financiers of terrorism.

The Nigerians placed on the watch list were Abdurrahman Ado Musa, Salihu Yusuf Adamu, Bashir Ali Yusuf, Muhammed Ibrahim Isa, Ibrahim Ali Alhassan and Surajo Abubakar Muhammad

Speaking during an appearance on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Monday, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, stated that Buhari is not interested in naming and shaming terrorism sponsors.

According to the presidential spokesperson, the federal government is only interested in prosecuting them.

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The Presidential media aide disclosed that Buhari’s regime does not have the motive of shaming the terrorists’ sponsors but will make them face charges.

Reacting, the PDP challenging the Buhari government to expose terrorism sponsors if the present government are not complicit.

According to the PDP spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, said the PDP position is predicated on the declaration of the Buhari Presidency that it was not interested in making public, the names of six Nigerians reportedly sent to the Federal Government by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as sponsors of terrorism in our country.

The PDP holds that the decision of the APC-led government to cover the identity of sponsors of mindless mass killings, maiming, raping, kidnapping of our compatriots as well as the endless violent marauding of our communities under the APC watch, validates our stand that such individuals have connections with the APC.

This unpatriotic stance by the Buhari Presidency raises serious national anxieties of high-level complicity in the administration and further explains the reported compromising of our security system in the escalated killings and acts of terrorism in our country in the last six years under the APC.

Nigerians can see why the APC-led administration has failed to take decisive steps to tackle terrorism, why it prefers to negotiate with terrorists and even makes case for them, instead of apprehending and prosecuting them, as witnessed in the beheading of rice farmers in Borno state

The PDP had always alerted of a connection between the APC and terrorists ravaging various parts of our nation and how the APC, as a party, had always failed to forcefully condemn acts of terrorism in our country.

Nigerians can recall how the APC vehemently defended and still harbours the Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, a self-confessed terrorism apologist, despite national outcry and demand for his sack.

Also, the APC has failed to account for the bandits, thugs and hoodlums it imported from neighbouring countries to unleash violence on Nigerians and muscle the 2019 elections.

If the APC and its administration have nothing to cover, our party challenges them to immediately publish the names of the sponsors of terrorism given to it by the UAE, instead of this vexatious desperation to provide official cover for them.

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