Stop Playing Politics With Human Lives, APC Tells PDP

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has asked the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to stop playing politics with the lives of Nigerians, saying it is wrong, irresponsible and uncharitable to seek to make political gains out of the worsening and deadly terror attacks in the country. In a statement issued in Gusau, Zamfara State yesterday by its interim national publicity secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said Nigerians are too discerning to be hoodwinked by PDP’s ceaseless finger-pointing and name calling, as exhibited by the party’s overly- exuberant and rarely-introspective spokesman. It said Nigerians who watched the live telecast of the APC rally in Ado Ekiti on Wednesday saw how the party, left with no choice than to proceed with the rally in view of the suddenness of the Jos twin bombings and the fact that INEC cannot be prevailed upon to change the timetable of the Ekiti polls, made it as sombre as possible
under the circumstances. “Despite the presence of musical groups and other performers, all musical breaks in the programme and all other scheduled performances were cut out, while the rally itself was drastically abridged. There is no doubt that the PDP spokesman did not even bother to get the full details of the rally before rushing to the media in his usual jumpy self,” the party said.