In a statement issued yesterday by the spokesman for the PDP, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, the main opposition party blamed President Muhammadu Buhari and his administration for failing to contain the mindless killings.

The statement said: "Our party holds that the situation where marauders and insurgents, who had been pushed to the fringes by the PDP administration, had resurged under the APC, to the extent of occupying territories, ravaging communities and killing our citizens with reckless abandon, raises a lot of questions.

"It is even more lamentable that the bandits had become so emboldened by the failure of the APC administration to the extent of holding Mr. President's home state, Katsina, to ransom.

The main opposition party said the time has come for the administration to define its stand on the issue of insecurity in the country, particularly the call by well-meaning Nigerians on President Buhari to rejig the nation's top security architecture and inject new blood into the system.

"The PDP weeps for the victims of the mindless attacks and restates its call on President Buhari to wake up from slumber and take conclusive steps, beyond speeches, to flush the bandits out of our nation".