By Valentine Amanze, Online Editor
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has challenged President Muhammadu Buhari to speak out on the alleged complicity of the military and some officials of the Presidency in the abduction of 317 students of Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe in Zamfara State by terrorists.
The party, via a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, described as alarming, the allegations in the public space, especially by the Northern Youth Movement (NYM), of compromises by the military, which paved the way for the invasion of the school reportedly located less than 100 meters to a military check point to abduct over 317 schoolgirls.
It stated: “Our party demands explanations to reports that soldiers stormed the community two hours earlier and ordered residents to clear the streets and retire to their houses, only for the bandits to invade the town, assaulted the school and carted away 317 innocent girls without any impediments. “Moreover there are already insinuations in the public space that the abduction was plotted by unscrupulous high-level officials of the Buhari
Presidency, who are allegedly benefitting from the insurgency, terrorism and banditry going on in our country.”
While tasking the Buhari Presidency over the perplexing reports, the PDP particularly demanded that the National Security Adviser (NSA), Gen. Babagana Mongunu, should come clean on the allegations that the escalation of acts of terrorism including the rampant kidnapping of students, were masterminded to heat up the situation and justify the demand for huge allocations for the anti-terrorism effort.
“Our party and indeed, all well-meaning Nigerians, insist that the Buhari Presidency must not keep quiet in the face of these huge allegations but immediately clear the air and restore confidence in the hearts of Nigerians before it is too late,” it stated.
Recall that President Muhammadu Buhari had stated yesterday that the Zamfara abduction would be the last of such in Nigeria. Besides, the Zamfara State Governor Metawalle had told the Northern emirs who visited him at the weekend that they would be marveled if he revealed the identities of those behind the abduction.