 The presidency has described the recent attacks in Orwar on the state and part of Kaduna state as planned and politically motivated criminal outrages. In a statement signed by the senior special assistant to the president on media and publicity, Gad Basheu, the presidency argued that the attacks are designed to set various regions of the country against one another, but added that it would not be distracted by such intrigues. The statement tied to the recent spate of church attacks unacceptable, stated that the tragedies which shook the nation to its core is designed by wicked people to put the country on the religious stress.