Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said the All Progressives Congress (APC) should be ashamed for allegedly seeking to play politics with the death of Nigerians at a stampede during the recruitment exercise conducted by the Nigeria Immigration Service on Saturday.
APC had described the incidence as a direct consequence of 15 years of misrule by the PDP-led federal government, adding that the overall responsibility is that of President Goodluck Jonathan, who now seems to be bent on leaving a dubious legacy of bad leadership that has led to a grim harvest of deaths from insecurity, widespread violence and now job stampede, among others.
PDP, in a statement on Sunday by its National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, said the APC had shown that it lacks respect for human life, adding that its statement lacks class, and politicizing the unfortunate incident.
The ruling party said it was despicable for the APC to condescend so low to trivialize and politicise weighty issues bordering on human lives, while the families of the deceased were still mourning, all in a bid to score a cheap political point.
The PDP described the APC’s statement as crass, adding that it had further exposed itself as a party of insensitive persons “blinded by inordinate quest for power”.
