Addressing a press conference, PDP National Publicity Secretary, Hon. Debo Ologunagba, Monday in Abuja said the party is deeply saddened, alarmed and distressed by the video of terrorists dehumanising the victims of the bloody Abuja/Kaduna train attack who have been held in captivity since March 28, 2022, exactly 120 days today.

He described it as heartbreaking to watch fathers, mothers, husbands, wives, brothers, sisters, helpless children; compatriots and citizens of Nigeria in captivity and being tortured, brutalized, humiliated and crying in pain.

The opposition party has berated the ruling APC for allegedly not responding to the pains and sufferings of Nigerians.

Ologungba urged President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately and without further delay convene a special session of the National Council of State to find a lasting solution to the killings by the murderous terrorists.

He stated “the emotional toll of this sad incident on the victims, their families and the entire nation cannot be quantified, particularly on the younger generation who witnessed the humiliation of their parents and breadwinners in such gruesome circumstance.

“This will certainly have a generational consequence on the emotional and psychological makeup of our young persons with the possibility of losing faith in our nation and the capacity for empathy.

“Indeed, as a Party, our hearts bleed! The APC government has irretrievably failed our nation. Under the APC, Nigeria is fast sliding into a Hobbesian State where the Rule of Law, Order and leadership are absent and where a cruel, inhumane and insensitive bunch of human beings in government have abandoned our citizens to killers, terrorists and bandits.

“This disquieting video is a heart-rending testament of the reported complicity and failure of the APC government to take decisive actions to rescue the victims since the gruesome train attack in which very promising Nigerians including a 29 years old female medical doctor were brutally killed and others were taken captive by terrorists since then”.

Ologunagba insisted that the APC-led government is complicit in the continued mass killing by terrorists in various parts of the country.

He also claimed that the APC government has ceded sovereignty over a large portion of the country to terrorists.

He recalled the statement by the Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, that the APC government knows the plans and whereabouts of the terrorists but failed to act.

Ologunagba said, “between 2020 and 2022 about 18,000 Nigerians have been killed by terrorists who continue to be emboldened by the failures and obvious complicity of the APC and to which the PDP had always drawn attention”.

He charged Nigerians to hold the APC government accountable, saying ” we must come together as a people, irrespective of our political, ethnic and religious affiliations to resist the fascist-leaning tendencies of the APC administration”.