The main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has tasked President Muhammadu Buhari to declare a state of emergency on security, even as it asked the President to resign.
This comes as the party has called on the President to address the issues raised by former President Olusegun Obasanjo in his open letter.
Speaking at press conference on Tuesday in Abuja, PDP National Chairman, Uche Secondus, insisted that the present administration has collapsed in the country.
He therefore called on the President to rejig the security architecture in the country.
Secondus also threw his weight behind the views expressed by the Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, Cardinal John Onaiyekan, Nobel Laureate Prof Wole Soyinka and former Governor of Kaduna state Mallam Balarabe Musa who previously declared that the President cannot solve the myriad of challenges confronting the country.
Secondus said: “The PDP wholeheartedly associates itself with the position of these patriotic Nigerians and urges President Buhari to respond appropriately their timely advisories by declaring state of emergency on security in the country and go further urgently to address the issues raised in Obasanjo’s letter.
“There is no doubt that the only thing apparent in President Buhari and APC administration is incompetence and this is clearly underscored in the way and manner they are handling the affairs of governance which has continued to take a huge toll on the nation.
“The level of bloodletting occasioned by the barrage of criminalities across the country can only be happening in a country without government.
“The killing of Mrs. Funke Olakunrin daughter of Pa Reuben Fasoranti, leader of the Yoruba socio cultural organization, Afenifere is the height point of murdering of innocent Nigerians across the land.It certainly cannot be well for a nation that creates an ugly situation where a 94 year old Nationalist would be burying her 58 year old daughter. Sad! This certainly is not Nigeria of our dream”.
OWEDE AGBAJILEKE, Abuja
