PDP blames Niger tanker explosion, deaths on hardship,neglect of citizens
By Tunde Opalana
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said unfavourable socio- economic policies of the President Bola Tinubu – led All Progressives Congress (APC) administration was responsible for the number of casualties recorded in last weekend’s tragic petrol tanker explosion at Dikko junction, along Dikko-Maje Minna Road in Niger State.
While the party mourned the death of over 80 Nigerians with many injured, it insisted that neglect of infrastructural facilities and social amenities forced the victims to engaged in unconventional means of fending for themselves.
National Publicity Secretary, Hon. Deborah Ologunagba in a statement on Monday said the APC administration of President Tinubu should be held responsible for the ugly incident.
The PDP said “this recent disaster adds to the ugly wave of tragic occurrences that have befallen our dear nation due to the deplorable state of infrastructure and disorienting economic hardship occasioned by the gross neglect of the wellbeing of the citizens since the inception of the APC in government.
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“It is indeed disheartening that Nigerians especially our youths and bread winners of homes continue to die on the highways and bear ugly scars as victims of the unspeakable misgovernace of the APC.”
The party called on the Federal Government not to stop only at investigating the remote and immediate causes of this and similar incidents in the recent time but, most importantly take immediate steps to address the situation that led to the sad occurrences.
“The Federal Government should end its resort to lip service and take steps to put adequate measures to ensure safer roads so as to prevent the reoccurrence of such tragic incidents in the country,” the party advised.
It however, commended the efforts and courage of the police, firefighters, the Federal Road Safety Corps and other agencies and patriotic Nigerians who helped to control the fire and rescued some of the victims.
The party commiserated with the families of the victims, the government and people of Niger State and prays to God to grant speedy recovery to the injured and fortitude to the families of the deceased at this trying time.
