Abducted school girls: APC says Chikwe’s comments reflects the mind of PDP

Alhaji Lai Mohammed

                                                                                                                                                              The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as shocking the comments credited to Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Women Leader, Kema Chikwe, over the abduction of the Chibok school girls in Borno State.

Chikwe was reported to have expressed her doubts about the abduction of the school girls while making a speech at a PDP women prayer session when she asked: “Who saw it happen?”
Interim National Publicity Secretary of APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed,  in a statement yesterday,  said the comments allegedly made by Chikwe raised concern, wondering if her statement

represented the  opinion of the ruling party or the unstated stand of the presidency on the matter.
The statement read in part: “It has been said that politics should not be brought into issues of national security. But how can anyone keep quiet in the face of this glaring assault on the sensitivity of a whole nation by a supposed leader of the ruling party? Who indeed is attempting to politicise a national tragedy, undoubtedly the worst in the history of our nation, if not the PDP?
“Does this explain why the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces has not deemed it fit to make a national broadcast to assure a dumbstruck nation that he is indeed in charge, to give hope to the shell-shocked parents of the girls and to inspire the military, three weeks after this unprecedented national tragedy? Is this why the President and Commander-in-Chief has yet to visit Chibok? The party asked.
“It is outrageous and unconscionable that anyone, least of all a woman, mother, grandmother and a top ranking ruling party official would attempt to trivialise the pains of losing one’s daughters to unstable, primitive and blood-thirsty hoodlums, even when photographic and other evidences abound of the efforts being made by the parents to personally rescue their children, and asked whether the parents who have, despite the risks to their own lives, taken to the Sambisa Forest in search of their children could have gone there on a picnic.
“A fringe group first mooted this idea of the abduction not being real and was ignored. But now that it has been raised to the level of a party’s stand, it is time for all Nigerians to speak out and condemn this absurdity. Is Chikwe saying that the military that has been working round the clock to rescue the girls is only play acting? Is she also saying that the President who called an expanded National Security Council meeting on the issue is only horsing around? Enough of this absurdity.”