…warns ‘escalating violence, killings capable of truncating 2023 elections’
Worried by the worsening insecurity across the country, the Labour Party (LP), on Sunday, passed a vote of no confidence in President Muhammadu Buhari, demanding his immediate resignation from office.
The LP also warned that the inability of the Buhari government to effectively tackle the ravaging bandits and terrorists perpetrating violence and killings in the North and other parts of the country constituted a threat capable of truncating the conduct of the 2023 general elections in Nigeria.
It expressed worries about the worsening spate of insecurity in Nigeria, adding, “The frightening impotence of the APC-led Federal Government in the face of ESCALATING TERRORISM MAY DERAIL THE 2023 ELECTIONS.”
The party stated this in a statement on Sunday by its National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Abayomi Arabambi, against the backdrop of the recent terrorists’ attacks on the Kaduna Airport in which one person was killed and last week’s Kaduna-Abuja train attack in which no fewer than eight persons were killed. Several others were also injured in the attack while the exact number of persons kidnapped has yet to be ascertained.
The LP noted that since the incumbent All Progressives Congress (APC)-led administration had failed to effectively perform its constitutional responsibility of protecting the lives and property of all Nigerians in all parts of the country, President Buhari should immediately resign as the nation’s leader.
The party argued that no sane society would continue to condone such wanton destruction of the precious lives of its citizens and their property as being flagrantly perpetrated by the bandits and terrorists under the Buhari administration.
It warned that with the confused and clueless stance of the incumbent administration as well as the helplessness being exhibited by the APC-led Federal Government towards the worsening insecurity across the country, President Buhari should immediately resign.
The LP further described the Buhari government as a monumental failure that had been sustaining itself in power in the past seven years with lies that were even insulting to the intelligence of Nigerian citizens.
The party expressed its displeasure that under the “incompetent” Buhari administration, Nigeria had become a “failed state.”
The full text of the LP statement made available to First News reads:
WORSENING INSECURITY AND NATIONAL ASSEMBLY THREAT TO
SHUT DOWN: LABOUR PARTY PASSES VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE ON PMB LED APC ADMINISTRATION
Labour Party’s attention has been drawn to an embarrassing terror attacks in Kaduna State, which involved one Abuja to Kaduna bound train and an aircraft on the Kaduna Airport tarmac in a nation with a standing Army and multiple security agencies. It is an incident that brought home vividly the fact that the APC-led Government is in any language a woefully failed Administration and Nigeria a failed state.
Labour Party is really worried that a Government can try to lie to the people so blatantly in trying to bend the public’s mind. In just one incident, Nigeria lost a large number of evolving promising brilliant young Nigerians in one fell swoop on Abuja-Kano railroad. In that attack , the lives lost include that of the General Secretary of TUC , the Kwara State Chairman of TUC ,one Doctor and a Lawyer with very many other important individuals that mean much for the future of Nigeria as a Nation. The Former Zamfara State Deputy Governor was shot and wounded with many others while a host of other eminent Nigerians were kidnapped by this group of bandits.
The frightening impotence of the APC Federal Governments in the face of ESCALATING TERRORISM MAY DERAIL THE 2023 ELECTIONS and Labour party hereby advice the President to throw in the towel even as APC Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El Rufai threatened that “Kaduna State with four others of the seven Northwestern states—Katsina, Zamfara, Kebbi, Sokoto—may join him to hire foreign mercenaries if the Federal Government does not end the ongoing spate of terror attacks in the region” is a signal that the APC-led FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS A FAILURE.
It is becoming very frightening and more bewildering noticing the highly increasing level of helplessness of the APC led Federal Government as terrorism increases in boldness and becomes more daring.
It is fast becoming unsafe to travel on any road in Nigeria as the seemingly incessant killings by the terrorists have now grown into a level that the APC Government has been rendered confused and overwhelmed . The rate the war by the terrorists gets hot and sustained very dangerously and so close to the seat of Government in Abuja leaves a sad and powerful sense and of feelings the question the capacity of the APC Government at evolving some effective counter means and ways to successfully and efficiently confront these terrorists that daily throws Nigerians into deep mourning and loss of human lives that keep Nigerians in excruciating pains.
The Government appears to be very clueless , confused and thoroughly cornered by the style of operations and organisation of the terrorists, which has successfully limited the official and professional relevance of the Military .The Government of course should have reconsidered its meaningless style of recklessly lying to Nigerians about the true situation of terrorism . Anyway, it is now obvious that the Service Chiefs are now at their wits end and changing them has to be an option.
The record of the number of terror incidents across the Nation is totally mind boggling and unbelievable . Very unimaginable in a Country run on the rules of law with a Government on seat.The Abuja/Kaduna axis directly under the nose of Aso rock takes the biscuit and larger attacks. Kaduna axis is also comfortable for the terrorists.
Katsina, Kano, Sokoto and very many other states do experience very audacious terrors comfortably, freely executed without challenge or even attempts from security operatives. In the Eastern Geo-Political Zone, it is normal and usual like a culture for terrorists to operate freely and in the South West, South-South and North Central, it is impossible for the citizens to live in peace for one week without being in the face of frightening terrorism like ours, is a leaderless and rudderless Banana Republic.
These terrorists are so much uncaring of the possibilities of a restraining reaction from the security operatives because none ever comes; this has emboldened them to confidently carry terror attacks back to back in the same axis . Nigerians have now started to ask for freedom to get armed in order to defend themselves since it has now been seen that the APC Government has woefully failed in defending them.
It worsens when the ruling APC chieftains keep lying to Nigerians; it is clear that the
the whole disaster is worsened when top functionaries of the Government choose to tell very awkward lies that insult the intelligence of Nigerians and trying to rationalise it’s terribly weak and incompetent capability .
In a situation where even the legislators at the Federal level threatened to close up indefinitely as a result of the fear of terrorism, doesn’t this confirm that the APC-led rulers have been served indirectly with “A VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE” ?
The APC and its Government should be patriotic enough to confess the truth that it is not in control of the Insecurity ravaging the nation and therefore do the needful and leave the space and resign for a more capable set of rulers to come on board to free the totally cowed and stressed Nigerians.
That even the APC produced Majority leader has to move on the floor of the Green Chamber that Nigerians should be allowed to carry arms for their self protection.
Of course, Labour Party condemns in totality the very weak responses of the Government to terrorism. At least now that the APC Government , the Security Agencies and all the Federal might have failed to provide security for the people, it is quite plausible that Nigerians should be constitutionally empowered to carry arms for self-defense.
Labour Party subscribes to the fact that the first and the very most important duty of Government is to constitutionally provide and ably guarantee the safety and security of the Citizens, but it is unfortunate that the APC led Government had left Labour Party no choice but to strongly condemn the level of its highly shocking and extremely nauseating incompetence shown against the continual killings of the citizens across the Nation by the terrorists.
It has now come to a stage that as a nation this must not be condoned any more. The time has come for the Government to do what is standard and needful right immediately as security is the main demand for a true democratic rule but this is one area in which the Federal Government had been found highly wanting . It is not in doubt that in this area , hopes of any kind of adequate reaction can not be expected from the Government.
Labour Party finally calls on the Federal Government and the President to quickly begin to walk his talk, since it is obvious that Nigerians are tired of the ongoing insecurity and may not possibly remain folding their arms for the elections to be derailed and the APC should not falsely believe that derailing the 2023 election can allow it to continue in office as a result of anticipated lacuna the failure to hold the elections may bring. It will not happen and can not happen .
This continued show of lack of political will by the APC-led Government to quickly checkmate the rampaging terror in the Nation can only attract displeasure of the people .
Labour party says no to any subversive attempt to derail the 2023 wlectioneering process
Signed
Comrade Arabambi Abayomi
National Publicity Secretary
03/04/2022
