90 per cent Muslims comment: PDP reacts to Buhari’s comment

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90 per cent Muslims comment: PDP reacts to Buhari’s comment

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to apologise over his claim that 90 per cent of Boko Haram targets are Muslims.

The main opposition party in a statement, in Abuja on Wednesday, accused Buhari of resorting to religious colouration and classification of wanton killings in the country by insurgents, saying that the remark was “totally horrendous, unpresidential, scandalous, discriminatory, divisive and a huge spat on the grave of the victims.

“The party, therefore, counsels President Buhari to immediately apologise for his comments, accept failure, rejig his security high command and engage more competent hands to effectively tackle the security challenges,” the statement said.

The party described as highly insensitive, that President Buhari could attempt to rationalise the failure of his administration to end the insurgency by stating that 90 per cent of those killed by terrorists are members of a particular religion.