Leaders and supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Thursday, staged a peaceful protest in Abuja, demanding President Muhammadu Buhari to rescue all the abducted Kankara students in Katsina State.
Hundreds of students of Government Science Secondary School (GSSS), Kankara, were abducted last Friday by gunmen.
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The PDP National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, who led the protesters in Abuja, demanded the safe return of the students.
Secondus demanded that the federal government should initiate genuine strategies aimed at rescuing the boys alive and stop issuing mere press statements.
“This is a peaceful protest to make the entire country and international community to be aware of what is going on in our country,” Secondus said.
But reacting, President Muhammadu Buhari/Osinbajo Dynamic Support Group, said that the abduction of the students and on-going protests were calculated to blackmail Buhari.
Addressing newsmen at the APC National Secretariat on Thursday in Abuja, the National Coordinator of the group, Hon. Usman lbrahim, said Nigerians should cooperate with the Buhari administration to enable it succeed.
“On behalf of MBO family worldwide, I want to join all well meaning Nigerians, especially President Muhammadu Buhari, to express our deep concern on the unfortunate incidence of the abduction of some students of GSSS Kankara, Katsina State.
“It is indeed a painful incidence designed to blackmail President Muhammadu Buhari GCFR.
“I do appeal to the parents of these boys to be patient and cooperate with the Nigerian government as the security apparatus are already mobilised to bring back the boys,” Ibrahim said.
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