Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has condemned in a strong term, the Edo train attack, saying it is “reminder on the urgent request to reform our security architecture to better safeguard the lives and properties of the Nigerian citizens.”
Over thirty passengers and staff of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) were reported carted away late on Saturday night by gunmen at the Igueben train sub-station in Edo state.
Atiku in a statement through his Media Office on Sunday, described the incident as “the latest in a long condemnable line of security breaches previously unseen in our national history.”
The former Vice President thereby prayed for the captives’ safety, maintaining that “applying diplomatic pressures needed to stem the free flow of light arms and assault weapons across the West African sub-region and through our borders.”
