Abuja Plaza blast: PDP accuses opposition of bombing Nigeria The Peoples Democratic Party, yesterday insisted that those against President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration were behind recent bombings in the country. PDP made this claim while reacting to Monday’s bomb attack in the School of Hygiene in Kano, Kano State, as well as the attacks on some Kaduna communities, where many innocent Nigerians were killed and others sustained different levels of injuries. A statement by the National Secretary of the PDP, Prof. Wale Oladipo, said the ceaseless attacks were aimed at intimidating the people, destablising the polity and destroying the future of Nigeria. The statement reads: “We have observed that it has become a recurrent decimal that whenever the PDP or the Federal Government records or is about to record a major milestone, insurgents launch attacks on the people. The most recent being the Kano and Kaduna attacks, which came at the wake of PDP’s victory in Ekiti State last Saturday and ahead of the ground-breaking and unveiling ceremony of the Centenary City by President Jonathan on Tuesday. “Was it a mere coincidence that bombs went off in Nyanya, Abuja, on Monday, April 14, 2014, killing over a hundred innocent citizens at a time the world focused on Nigeria for the hosting of the 25th World Economic Forum in Abuja? “Was it also a mere coincidence that the Chibok schoolgirls were abducted by insurgents the following day? Were these attacks part of a plot to divert attention from the gains of the Forum and paint the Federal Government as incompetent and the nation as unsafe?” Oladipo also asked Nigerians on whether the insurgents that attacked and bombed Jos Terminus Market, killing hundreds of Nigerians on Thursday, May 20, 2014, two days before the shelved PDP mega rally in Ekiti State, was a mere coincidence or not? He said the attack might have been planned to ultimately stop the rally for fear that it would soar the popularity of the PDP in the state. Oladipo said, “Was it also a mere co-incidence that these attacks scaled up after President Jonathan performed the ground-breaking ceremony of the Second Niger Bridge in March? Was it also meant to divert attention from that achievement? “We wonder if it was also a coincidence that insurgents attacked the Mamudo Government Secondary School in Yobe, killing 41 school children and a teacher on July 6, 2013, a day after President Goodluck Jonathan flagged off the rehabilitation of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway?”
Posted on: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 05:29:04 +0000
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