PDP also called on Nigerians to hold APC led federal govt responsible for the deaths and injuries occasioned by the stampedes
By Kehinde Okeowo
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has berated the President Bola Tinubu-led APC government after stampedes in various parts of the country claimed the lives of many Nigerians and left others injured.
The main opposition party made its feelings known in a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba.
He described the food stampedes in the country as a testament of the “alarming level of misery, poverty, hunger, starvation, sense of hopelessness and desperation for survival currently plaguing our nation under the All Progressives Congress (APC) administration.”
The PDP also lamented the tragic stampedes at private events in Oyo and Anambra states as well as the FCT, Abuja which claimed the lives of citizens including children in their desperate struggle for food was caused by hunger in the land.
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Speaking via the statement, Ologunagba said, “The PDP is devastated that the APC-led administration has wrecked our once thriving economy and pushed millions of Nigerians deeper into abject poverty and hunger with many citizens, not being able to afford their daily meals, now resorting to suicide and desperate measures including slavery mission abroad and fighting for crumbs for survival.
“It is heartbreaking that despite our abundant resources as a nation, Nigerians have been subjected to agonizing life where they die struggling for food.
“This horrifying situation in the country further confirms the APC as a party of ‘political vampires and buccaneers’ who have no iota of regard for human life but rather derive pleasure in the suffering and death of citizens including innocent children.
“Only this explained why the APC administration continues in arrogant false performance claims including empty assurances of food sufficiency while deliberately failing to make the required investments to boost the productive sector, particularly in agriculture and food production.”
PDP also said more provoking is that instead of deploying the nation’s resources for the wellbeing of the people, “the APC leaders are engaged in massive looting through direct pillaging of government vaults, budget padding, contract inflation, oil subsidy scam, palliative racketeering and phony programmes which have no benefit to the lives of the citizens.”
It further called on Nigerians to hold the APC administration responsible for the remote cause of these tragic occurrences for which it must recompense.
“Our Party insists that any administration that is sensitive and cares for the people would have since introduced intervention programmes to ease the suffering and improve on the welfare of the masses which is the primary purpose of government.” PDP added.
