APC Says Attack On Buhari A Reminder of NADECO and Abacha, Seeks International Probe

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that the bomb attack on

General Muhammadu Buhari, is a reminder of the regime of late General Sani

Abacha when Pro Democracy activists were blamed for series of bomb

attacks.
The opposition party also called for an international inquiry into

Wednesday's assassination attempt on its leader, Gen. Buhari, to unravel

the motive and the perpetrators of the dastardly act that could have

plunged the country into a deep turmoil, had it succeeded.

In a statement issued in Benin on Sunday by its National Chairman, Chief

John Odigie Oyegun, the party said it does not have the confidence that

the Nigerian security agencies can carry out an impartial investigation,

because they work for the government instead of the nation.

It said the call has become more urgent because the agents of the Federal

Government have started muddling the waters with their sickening

statements and actions on the attack.
”How does one explain a situation in which a man who is nothing but a

pervert is now being paraded as the suspected 'mastermind' of the attack

on Gen. Buhari? At what point was this man, who perhaps is nothing but a

transvestite plying his trade, arrested? Is it not clear, from the

statement released by Gen. Buhari himself after the attack, that it was

clearly the handiwork of a suicide bomber?
”Could the person who drove the vehicle that was rammed into the General's

convoy have survived the explosion that was triggered by that action?

Could the innocent passers-by who died in the blast not have been arrested

and paraded as the 'suspected masterminds' if they had survived the blast?

Clearly, the arrest of the pervert and his sickening description as a

'suspected mastermind' have kick-started the process of muddling the

waters, as is usually the case with such high-profile cases.

”This is why an urgent international inquiry into the attack is desirable

and imperative, and anyone who is committed to an impartial probe of the

attack on the opposition leader should embrace our call,” APC said, adding

that the insurgency and its spin-offs are now clearly beyond the

capability of this Federal Government.
The party also said the call has been further justified by the statements

and insinuations emanating from the ruling PDP and the presidency, both of

which now seem to be pointing accusing fingers at the same party (APC)

that is clearly the target of the failed assassination attempt on one of

its top leaders.
”The questions to ask the purveyors of such repugnant theories are: Did

the late Emir of Kano also stage the attack on his convoy? Did the other

Emirs who were attacked, with at least one of them killed recently, also

stage the attack against themselves? Did Gen. Muhammed Shuwa, who was

killed by gunmen in Maiduguri in 2012, also stage the attack on himself?

”We are indeed in very interesting times, times that remind one of the

failed attempt by the Administration of the late military dictator, Gen.

Abacha, to blame pro-democracy group NADECO for the series of deadly

attacks on pro-democracy activists during the tenure of the

Administration.
”But we are confident that just as the truth about those who perpetrated

those attacks was eventually revealed, the masterminds of the failed

assassination attempt on our leader will definitely be exposed sooner than

later, whether or not the government agrees to our call for an

international inquiry,” it said.
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