THE South-West chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) presidential candidate in the 2011 general election, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari, must apologise to Nigerians, especially the Yoruba, over the violence that claimed several lives and properties in some parts of the North, aftermath of the 2011 presidential election.
The party said since Buhari had now admitted that PDP did not rig the election as he earlier claimed, “he must take responsibility for those Nigerians, especially the Yoruba youth corps members who were murdered during the violence that the North unleash on the nation.”
While speaking on Saturday in Abuja, at a one-day CPC Renewal Committee stakeholders forum, Buhari had said moles in his party cost him the 2011 election, regreting that intra-party squabbles that had afflicted the party in states across the country made the party to lose the election.
Reacting, PDP zonal publicity secretary, Kayode Babade, in a statement made available to the Nigerian Tribune on Sunday, said it was inhuman for Buhari not to have sought God’s forgiveness for the post-election violence.
“It is painful that instead of demanding explanations from Buhari for the killing of innocent yoruba youth corps members, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) is negotiating with him on the 2015 elections.
“Let them know that Yoruba are waiting for both Buhari and his allies in the ACN and will surely ask them to raise the dead youth corps members first before campaigning for votes here,” Babade said.
