By Samuel Ogidan
Abuja
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday vowed that it will never play politics with human lives, insisting that the party is committed to their release.
It said: “We are happy today that they have chosen the path of wisdom to temper their voice, they have heeded our call, I think our statement was positive in the sense that they have moderate the views, utterances of the opposition leaders. We are happy we did that, the party stands by that statement and have had profound effect on the body polity.”
Its National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, who said this when the PDP forum of zonal publicity secretaries paid a courtesy visit to the party secretariat in Abuja, added that President Goodluck Jonathan led government was committed to ensuring the security of lives and property despite the security challenges.
“The PDP will never play politics with human lives. We are much more committed to the release of the Chibok school girls in other for their parents and loved ones to have peace of mind.
“Never in the history of this country have we had such challenges come at a very critical time of our development, we are saddened by the abduction of the Girls of Government Secondary School in Chibok.
“The fact that some of these insurgents have been financed by people who were encouraged by the hard stance, utterances, statements made by these opposition leaders, when people are statesmen, we don’t expect them to speak in pursuance of their personal interest.”
Metuh added that because of what he called a dearth of opinion and ideology, the opposition had resorted to insulting the President of the country, National Chairman of the PDP, the party and every other person.
Speaking earlier, Chairman of the Forum of Zonal Publicity Secretaries of PDP and South-east zonal Publicity Secretary, Ali Odefa, expressed the loyalty of the forum to President Jonathan, Adamu Mu’azu and the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party.
The delegation included Emmanuel Okpokpo (South-south), Al-Amin San (North-east), Taofeeq Ganiyu (South-west) and Suleman Mohammed (North-central).
