The African Action Congress has said that Nigerians need to act to save the country from the myriads of insecurity that is rocking it persistently.
The Publicity Secretary of the party, Adeyeye Olorunfemi, stated this in a statement issued Wednesday, condemning the recent attacks on the presidential advance security team, and on the Kuje Correctional Centre, the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
The PUNCH reported that suspected terrorists, Tuesday night, near Dutsinma, Katsina State, ambushed the convoy of cars conveying the Presidency’s advance team of security guards, protocol, and media officers, killing two policemen in the process.
The PUNCH also reported that gunmen also attacked the Kuje prisons the same night, leaving the residents around the Kuje area of the Federal Capital Territory in panic.
Reacting in the statement, Adeyeye said, “It is now crystal clear that the only answer to having lasting peace, justice, and equity is for all oppressed people of Nigeria is to rise and smash this failed system that is symptomatic of bad governance, mass corruption, and gross impunity.
“Our country space was greeted again with very unfortunate events yesterday. Nigerians have once again been reminded that nowhere is safe. The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) regime has failed woefully in all areas.
He added that it had become trite that state institutions were now easily subdued by terrorists, saying Nigerians were still mourning the Owo massacre, the Abuja-Kaduna train attack, and many more tragic events with scores still in the captivity of terrorists.
“No one takes seriously the shameless statements of the regime’s publicity secretaries, Garba Shehu and Femi Adesina. Action is what is needed!” He said.
“Our party, the AAC is expressly clear that the solution to the tragic situations in Nigeria is revolution. The only other option is the continuation of the wars we are witnessing. It is the ruling class that is the cause of the war, we need all youths and the working class to come together and clean the Augean stable in classical clinical mass actions that would advance the #ENDSARS experience. The time to do the very needful is now!
“Nigerians must not fold their arms and watch till we all are swept out. We must rise at this time to condemn this act and pressurise failed President Buhari to resign, while we set radical standards on the political, economic growth, and development of the country! We can’t continue like this,” the statement concluded.
The PUNCH reported that about 50 victims of the Kaduna-Train attack on March 28, 2022, are still in detention, with their families and negotiators expressing fears for their safety.
It is also on record that there was a terrorist attack on St. Francis Catholic Church on June 5, 2022, leaving scores dead, with the perpetrators yet to be arrested.
In what looked like very daring guts, suspected terrorists had now descended on a presidential convoy, and a prison located in the country’s capital.
