The leading opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to visit Government Girls Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe State, for first hand information about the 110 missing girls in the school.
The girls were abducted on February 19 when members of the terrorists group, Boko Haram, struck in Yobe.
In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, the PDP said the president was too distant from the people, hence should visit Yobe State.
“This noble advice, if heeded by Mr. President, will bridge the disconnect between him and Nigerians, who daily lament the aloofness of their leader,” the party said.
The party argued that it was disheartening that while the parents of the abducted daughters were wailing and the insurgents were fleeing deeper, the “president and his APC leaders were busy feasting in the Presidential Villa and plotting their bound-to-fail 2019 re-election campaign.”
PDP said Buhari had completely reneged on his assurances, before his election, to be a father to all and to lead the fight against insurgency from the fronts.
The statement by the party reads further: “Nigerians are worried that he has now allowed himself to be holed in the safety and luxury of the Presidential Villa while citizens are being slaughtered and taken captives by marauders and insurgents.
“Nigerians are shocked that the presidential mandate of protecting lives has now been reduced to a cosmetic dispatching of ministers and persons with no knowledge of security, including those known to be falsifying performance indices, on mere fact-finding missions, while machinery for proactive security measures are left unattended.
“Today, Nigerians are daily slaughtered and taken as captives because those who have the direct mandate to protect them are more interested in their ill-lucked 2019 re-election ambition while the citizens are left to whatever fate befell them.
“Painfully, Nigerians are yet to see any concrete action taken by the Buhari Presidency to apprehend the perpetrators of the gruesome killings in Benue, Taraba, Zamfara, Adamawa, Borno, Plateau, Nasarawa and Yobe among other states where our citizens are being hacked down by marauders and insurgents.
“They are yet to see any step so far taken, outside empty promises, to end or even reduce the carnage.
“Most appalling is the fact that while the parents of our 110 abducted Dapchi daughters are still wailing and insurgents driving into deeper recesses, the president and his party men are busy feasting in the Presidential Villa and plotting their 2019 campaigns; of course, with funds meant for the wellbeing of the people and our nation.”
