APC to PDP: Stop playing dirty politics with kidnappers’ den

All Progressives Congress (APC) has warned the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to stop playing ‘dirty politics’ with the Ibadan kidnappers’ den saga.
APC, in a statement issued by its Oyo state Interim Publicity Secretary, Mr. Dauda Kolawole, lashed out at PDP for “attempting to trivialise a very sensitive issue like the sudden discovery of the kidnappers’ den in the guise of soliciting for cheap political blackmail.”

The statement said: “A party like the PDP which, in eight years of its reign in Oyo state, foisted on the polity, a culture of impunity and bloodshed, could still be bold enough to accuse anyone else of compromising peace.

“These people are working on the so-called short memory of Nigerians. If not, could they have imagined that we have forgotten so soon how the party’s eight-year rule was marred by violence, bloodshed and killing of our people? The name PDP in our state is synonymous with bloodshed and we can never forget the harrowing years of their being in power. To us, their years are years of the locusts.”

The party declared that the discovery of the kidnappers’ den in Ibadan by the Governor Abiola Ajimobi-led administration had demonstrated a high level of leadership and responsibility that any civilised government should do in a moment of crisis.
The party added that in comparison, the party was “way out of the class of the PDP in the mastery of the art of governance and did not need the party’s suggestion on how to run good governance.”