The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) has described Monday’s train attack in Kaduna State as an indication that President Muhammadu Buhari’s government has failed.
SPN made the disclosure via a statement issued by its Acting National Chairperson, Abiodun Bamigboye and National Secretary, Chinedu Bosah.
Recall that some bandits on Monday attacked a train going from Abuja to Kaduna.
The SPN, however, said the attack was due to the failure of the Buhari government.
The party said it believed that the nonchalance, cluelessness and absolute failure of the Buhari-led APC government was responsible for the calamity.
It called on the labour movement to declare a national day of mourning.
It also condoled the families of the victims who lost their lives during the attack.
“The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) condemns the tragic attack by terrorists on a Kaduna-bound train on Monday, March 28, 2022, and condoles with families of the victims as well as the leadership and members of the Trade Union Congress (TUC) over the loss of their General Secretary, Comrade Musa Lawal Ozigi and their Kwara State Chairman Comrade Akin Akinsola, during the tragedy.
“We strongly believe that the nonchalance, cluelessness and absolute failure in all ramifications of the Muhammadu Buhari-led APC Government are once again responsible for this calamity as well as many before it.
“We urge the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), who also lost a member, Dr. Chinelo Megafu, to use the occasion of this tragedy to launch a national day of mourning and protest to demand from the Buhari government an immediate end to the raging insecurity across the country or resign.
“Such a protest should also include demands on the collapse of power supply in the country, fuel price hike and scarcity, inflation, worsening living conditions and many other anti-poor policies.
“For us in the SPN, the Kaduna train tragedy demonstrates the bankruptcy and incapability of Nigeria’s corrupt and crooked capitalist ruling elite to safeguard the lives of the citizens let alone guarantee for them any reasonable standard of living.
“Therefore, this urgently calls for the labour movement to rise to the occasion by organizing to fight for immediate improvement while also proffering a political alternative to wrest power from the capitalist locust in power”.
