The Ogun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has expressed sadness at tanker explosion which left a woman and her grandchild dead pd.in Lafenwa area of Abeokuta, the state capital.
The Lafenwa explosion that happened yesterday was the third within the month of November in the state and has claimed many lives.
Reacting, the PDP, while commiserating with the people of Ogun and families of the victims of the Lafenwa Market inferno, blamed the ruling All Progressive Congress for the explosion and death.
According to Daily Post, the party, in a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Akinloye Bankole, the party said the Abiodun government has “intentionally weaponised dilapidated roads against the very people it swore to protect. There is no gainsaying that the incident in which a truck loaded with PMS overturned could have possibly been avoided if the Dapo Abiodun government had heeded our party’s several calls on the need to make the Lafenwa-Ayetoro road passable before now.”
The party stressed that the Governor Dapo Abiodun government “chose to play deaf and dumb to the plight of the people whose means of legitimate livelihood depends largely on that road.”
The statement read in part: “It is indeed worrisome to note that as the state still griefs in the face of widespread activities of members of secret cults across the state, we have a case of large scale inferno presently, struggling for wicked attention.
“Therefore, with all sense of compassion, we urge the good people of Ogun state to take solace in the fact that this era of deliberate insensitivity manifestly demonstrated by the sinking APC government would not last. It can not guarantee safety of lives and property.
“We hereby call on the people to continue to organize their energy while they remain calm and law abiding. Every shade of agony which the ruling APC government represents will soon be over.”
