APC demands inquiry into attempt to kill Buhari

The All Progressives Congress has accused the Federal Government and the country’s security agencies of being unserious about the investigation of the assassination attempt on a former military Head of State, Maj.Gen Muhammadu Buhari (retd) in Kaduna State, last Wednesday.

The Defence Headquarters had on Friday arrested a man dressed like a woman for allegedly perpetrating the act. However, the APC described the arrest as a mockery of the case.

In a statement signed by its National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, on Sunday, the APC said that only an international inquiry into the incident could unravel the motive and perpetrators of the dastardly act.

The party said it did not have confidence in the Nigerian security agencies to carry out an impartial investigation because the security agencies worked for the government instead of the nation.

It said, “How does one explain a situation in which a man who is nothing but a pervert is now being paraded as the suspected ‘mastermind’ of the attack on General Buhari? At what point was this man, who perhaps is nothing but a transvestite, plying his trade, arrested? Is it not clear from the statement released by Gen. Buhari himself after the attack that it was clearly the handiwork of a suicide bomber?

“Could the person, who drove the vehicle that rammed into the General’s convoy, have survived the explosion that was triggered by that action? Could the innocent passers-by who died in the blast not have been arrested and paraded as the ‘suspected masterminds’ if they had survived the blast? Clearly, the arrest of the pervert and his sickening description as a ‘suspected mastermind’ have kick-started the process of muddling the waters, as is usually the case with such high-profile cases.

“This is why an urgent international inquiry into the attack is desirable and imperative, and anyone who is committed to an impartial probe of the attack on the opposition leader should embrace our call.”

The party also said the call had been further justified by the statements and insinuations emanating from the Peoples Democratic Party and the Presidency, “both of which now seem to be pointing accusing fingers at the APC which was clearly the target of the failed assassination attempt on one of its top leaders.”

The party said the Jonathan administration had become similar to that of General Sani Abacha, which was fond of perpetrating dastardly acts and pinning it on the victims of the act.