The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is playing politics with the activities of bandits, insurgents, and other criminals whose origins can be traced back to the PDP’s terrible management of their formative years.  That was the All Progressives Congress’s (APC) response to the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) charge that the federal government was callous to Nigerians’ misery and colluded with criminals.

The APC claimed that the PDP was not only unpatriotic, banal, and a stumbling opposition, but that it was also engaging in dangerous politics with banditry, particularly with its proclivity for turning tragic events into political fodder.

APC made its points in a statement by the National Secretary of its Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee CECPC, Senator John James Akpanudoedehe on Tuesday.

The party said: “Suggestions by the opposition PDP that the President Muhammadu Buhari government is insensitive to the heinous activities of bandits in parts of the country should be seen for what it is — politically motivated, callous and insensitivity to victims and our gallant troops battling to end their criminal activities.”

The PDP had accused the APC of being insensitive to Nigerians’ hardship, citing collusion with bandits in the party’s failure to stop the killings in Sokoto, Niger, Katsina, Kaduna, Plateau, and elsewhere.

The APC, on the other hand, claims that “the regrettable attempt to turn a tragic situation into a politicking object crosses the line of political decorum.”

“The regrettable attempt to turn a tragic situation into an object of politicking crosses the line of political decorum.

“True to form, the PDP continues to expose its desperate politics in which all is fair, including unguarded statements mocking the travails of citizens and efforts of security services to score political points.

“The PDP playing politics with the evil activities of bandits, insurgents and other criminal rings, which had their roots in PDP’s shabby handling of their criminal activities during their formative stages, has exposed PDP as unpatriotic, banal and a wobbling opposition.

“While the PDP wallows in its delusions to score cheap points, the President Buhari-led APC administration has strengthened our security services, particularly the Armed Forces through military procurement and strategic training which has led to great successes against insurgents, bandits and kidnappers.

“The APC assures Nigerians that President Buhari has not, and will never relent in ensuring normalcy in all parts of the country.”