- The PDP has described President Muhammadu Buhari's visit to Taraba as afterthought
- Buhari had on Monday, March 5, visited Taraba state to condole with Governor Ishaku over recent killings in the state
- The former ruling party said Buhari summoned the leaders of the bereaved people to the Presidential villa, Abuja, rather than visited the bereaved
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described President Mohammadu Buhari’s visit to Taraba and the planned visit to other places were killings had occurred as an afterthought.
The Nation reports that a statement on Monday, March 5, by the party’s national publicity secretary Kola Ologbondiyan said: “It is alarming that Mr. President will consider visiting some of these states months after marauders, insurgents and bandits committed their havocs.
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NAIJ.com gathered that Ologbondiyan said: “Mr. President has been in the country and never thought it necessary to pay a condolence visit to any of these states until Nigerians raised the alarm alleging a manifest indifference on his part.
“It is even more pathetic that in Benue state, President Buhari summoned the leaders of the bereaved people to the Presidential villa, Abuja, rather than complying with the age-long tradition of Africans by visiting the bereaved.
“No wonder many Nigerians have dismissed the planned visit of President Buhari to these states as cosmetic afterthought. Nigerians have already formed their opinion of him, and rightly so, as a President that has never shown them concern in their time of need”.
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Meanwhile, NAIJ.com had previously reported that President Muhammadu Buhari said that the number of persons killed in herdsmen and farmers clashes and other violent attacks in Mambilla plateau, Sardauna local government area of Taraba state, is more than those killed in Zamfara and Benue states combined.
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Source: Naija.ng