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PDP Says APC Complicit in Kuje Prison Attack, Probes Redeployment of Soldiers 24hrs Before Attack

Nigeria’s main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has condemned in strong terms, the spate of insecurity and the audacity with which terrorists ravage the country unchallenged “under the rudderless All Progressives Congress (APC) administration.”

The PDP said the simultaneous terrorist attacks on the advance convoy of President Muhammadu Buhari in Katsina State as well as the correctional facility in Abuja, the nation’s capital, underscored the collapse of the security command and control structure under the failed, ineffective and uncoordinated Buhari-led APC administration.

A statement by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, stated that the terrorists’ attack on President Buhari’s convoy in his home State of Katsina as well as the ferocious invasion and the freeing of hundreds of terrorists and criminals from the Kuje Correctional Facility further confirmed that Mr. President has lost control of the security of the nation and that Nigerians were no longer safe under the APC.

According to the PDP, “The escalated spate of terrorism across the country has heightened apprehensions of complicity by the APC to open up the nation to more terrorists’ attacks with a view to stalling the 2023 general election.

“The failure of the APC administration to act on the intelligence provided by the Directorate of State Services (DSS), which on Tuesday July 5, 2022 reportedly warned of an impending attack on the Kuje Correctional Facility, gives credence to fears by Nigerians of complicity at very high level of the APC administration.

“This is in addition to further reports that soldiers deployed to the precinct of the Kuje Correctional Facility and who had become familiar with the terrain were redeployed 24 hours before the terrorists attacked.”

The PDP, therefore, demanded that the APC government should come clean on who ordered the reported redeployment of soldiers and who failed to act on the intelligence provided by the DSS.

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