The police have yet to provide casualty figures or arrest suspects in connection to the attack, but witnesses said over 28 people were killed.
“Any attack on innocent citizens indeed of a gathering of worshippers in any place in Nigeria stands condemned; it is a red line,” Atiku Abubakar said.
“Our Party calls out the APC to come clean on the pact it has with terrorists, for which it continues to look away as these outlaws mercilessly ravage our nation.”
“It is unacceptable for worshippers to be mowed down in a church,” a party spokesman said. “It is sacrilegious.”
The President says only fiends from the nether region could have conceived and carried out such dastardly act, adding that eternal sorrow awaits them.
“It is a black Sunday in Owo.”
The former Borno governor blamed the tough political season for his unsavoury remarks against the top government officials.
The Nigerian leader failed to name his favourite aspirant two days to the ruling party’s national convention.
State House of Assembly primary will be held on Saturday June 4 while governorship primary will be held on Sunday June 5.
Twenty-four federal constituencies were affected.
