The newly elected National Chairman of the crisis-ridden Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Taminu Turaki, SAN, has appealed to U.S. President Donald Trump and other world leaders to intervene in what he described as Nigeria’s rapidly worsening political and security situation.
This comes after heavily armed gunmen invaded the PDP National Secretariat in Abuja, firing sporadically and forcing Turaki and members of his National Working Committee—who had resumed duties following last weekend’s elective convention in Ibadan—to flee for safety.
Addressing journalists in Abuja, Turaki, who was flanked by Governors Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State and Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, said the level of lawlessness in the country has become intolerable.
He accused the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, of allegedly orchestrating the attack in collaboration with political thugs to unleash violence on the party’s headquarters.
According to Turaki, the deteriorating security situation threatens not only Christians but all Nigerians, warning that the nation’s democracy is “dangerously drifting toward collapse.”
A visibly frustrated Turaki declared:“We are calling on President Donald Trump and other world leaders to come to the rescue of Nigeria. A situation where government officials sponsor non-state actors to perpetrate crime and criminality is absurd and dehumanising.”
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