The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Former Governor Peter Obi, has expressed shock over the terror attack that rocked Ondo State, in which many lives were reportedly lost, describing it as a very sad day in the history of the nation.
Terrorists attacked St Francis Catholic Church in Owo, the headquarters of Owo Local Government Area of Ondo State. About 50 worshippers died and several others injured.
In a Press Release, Obi decried the continued descent of the country into insecurity and failure of the state. He lamented the mindless killing of innocent worshippers, saying it is heart breaking.
He condenmed the rising tide of violence in almost every part of the country, warning that no nation ever progresses with the level of insecurity Nigeria is currently experiencing. He said that what is more painful is that the worshippers were killed, without any sense of sacredness, right in their place of worship. Nigeria has become a failed State, almost, he lamented.
Obi: “The heartless waste of precious lives at Ondo, today, and indeed other parts of the country, where lives are lost in droves, reminds us how awfully we have retrogressed as a nation, and the herculean task, of nation building, ahead of us, in taking back our nation from insecurity and every form of failure holding us down.”
He condoled with the Government and people of the State, the Bishop and the entire Catholic Diocese of Ondo, and prayed for the quick recovery of the injured, and the repose of the souls of the departed.
