By Our Reporter
Lagos State chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) has condemned the statement credited to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which claimed that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's administration has "surrendered" to terrorists, describing such claim as clueless and unpatriotic.
APC gave this position a statement signed by its publicity Secretary, Hon. Seye Oladejo, copy of which was made available to newsmen on Monday, stating that only a frustrated, irrelevant, and idea-bankrupt opposition party like the PDP would mistake strategic leadership for surrender.
The ruling APC, while condemning the claim made by the main opposition party, argued that temporary school closures "is not a surrender to banditry but a strategic protection," stating that the PDP is angry that Nigeria is not burning the way it desperately hoped for.
"Only PDP, in its characteristic shallowness, would prefer that children be exposed to danger just so it can convene another doom-laden press conference.
"Temporary, intelligence-guided suspension of school activities is called prevention- a concept the PDP never understood in 16 years of governance-by-negligence.
"From overhauling defence leadership, procurement to deploying advanced surveillance, to strengthening inter-agency operations, President Tinubu has shown more political will in one year than PDP mustered in sixteen.
"PDP’s armageddon prophecy has collapsed - and It hurts them badly.
"Nothing exposes the PDP’s hypocrisy more than the successful rescue of the Eruku 38, their safe return - secured through intelligence-driven, coordinated operations - has shattered the opposition’s dream of a collapsing nation.
"Even more painful to them is the steady, coordinated progress toward freeing the remaining captives in the kidnappers’ enclave.
"These are the results of leadership, not the emotional press releases and tearful excuses that defined the PDP’s 16 wasted years," the party stated.
Speaking further, APC added that now that insecurity was being dismantled in the country, the PDP would have to manufacture a new tragedy to stay relevant because its favourite political oxygen is running out.
"It was the height of mindlessness and illogical reasoning for the PDP to describe President Tinubu’s decision to cancel his foreign trip in order to personally take charge of the rescue operations as 'tokenism.'
"Only a party that treated governance like beer-parlour gossip would trivialize such an act of responsibility. When a Commander-in-Chief suspends foreign engagements to coordinate a national security operation, it is called leadership - not the nonchalance that defined the PDP era," the party said.
APC, therefore, cautioned the main opposition party to keep quiet and safe itself embarrassment, noting that it is sometimes honorable to keep quiet when there is absolutely nothing sensible to say.
"Their silence would have saved them this embarrassment," the party said.
The party, while insisting that PDP lacked the moral authority of lecturing others on Integrity, alleged that the main opposition party, while in office, watched Boko Haram grew into a monster, lost territories to terrorists, negotiated ransom payments like a routine government function.
Besides, APC also alleged that the PDP allowed citizens of the country to be abducted in hundreds, while it turned Nigeria into a global symbol of insecurity.
"A party with this stain on its record is not qualified to lecture President Tinubu on security.
"Tinubu is fixing what the PDP destroyed.
That is the truth they cannot stomach," the statement read.
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