The Peoples Democratic Party said in Abuja on Friday that it would not criticise President Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress government if it fails to meet the December 31 deadline to end insurgency in the country.
Rather, it said that it would back the President to end the terror war.
PDP National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, stated the party’s position when he received a youth group under the aegis of Northern Youth Network at the party national secretariat.
Metuh said, “APC had promised that they were going to end insurgency in two weeks, they later said it will be over in two months and after that they now gave December 31 deadline to end Boko Haram.
“Now, in spite of the language it is couched in shifting the goal posts, and despite noting and observing all the infractions and all kinds of destructive criticisms APC mounted on us when they were in opposition, the PDP as a national party will refrain from making comments on issues on the inadequacies pertaining to the war against insurgency in the country.
“For us in the PDP, we remain completely in support of the federal government in the war to eradicate insurgency in our land and we enjoin all Nigerians to support President Muhammadu Buhari in the war against terror. “The war by the terror group is not against the President, it is not against the APC neither is it against the PDP.
“It is rather a war being waged against Nigerians and the countrymen should stand as a united force with our President to fight and defeat the insurgents.
“If we do this we will be fighting for a common good. We would send a message to those that seek to divide us that we are indivisible and that Nigeria is truly one country and that we want to remain so. We have decided not to discuss things pertaining to the war against insurgency and we will stand by the President as the leader of country.”
Metuh said that even in doing so, the party would still not hesitate or shy away from making its views known on other areas it feels that the government is not doing well.
“We will not be intimidated or harassed into abandoning our role as the leading opposition party. We will remain a viable and vocal voice of the opposition and we will remain focused in our constructive criticism against the government of the day,” he added.
