The National Mandate Group (NMG), an Atiku Abubakar support organisation for the 2023 presidential election, has congratulated the Lagos State Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Philip Aivoji, who was freed on Monday after his abduction last week along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
Lagos State Chairman of NMG, Wahab Sadiq, said that for failing to provide security, the Federal Government must work out a refund and a compensation package for kidnapped victims that paid ransom to regain their freedom throughout the country.
Sadiq said that it took the grace of God for Aivoji to have survived the ordeal of being abducted and subjected to all sorts of psychological torture and physical trauma in the hands of the kidnappers.
The group, which lambasted President Bola Tinubu for abandoning his duty post and taking a vacation at this period of national calamity, recalled that the President left the country for “private visit” overseas soon after the killing of over 50 unarmed Nigerians by terrorists in Plateau and Benue states.
It said: “Who does that? Who sees his home burning and will decide to go for sight seeing? It is the height of insensitivity and apathy. It shows that the government of President Tinubu has lost touch with the reality of life in this jungle that Nigeria is fast becoming in the nine years of the All Progressives Congress (APC) government.
“Time has come for the Federal Government to begin to feel the pain of kidnappings and abductions Nigerians daily suffer. NMG demands that every time someone is kidnapped and ransom is paid, the Federal Government must bear the cost through a well-structured compensation and refund policy.
“A government that shows lack of capacity to provide security and curb insurgency, terrorism and banditry has no reason to continue in office.”
