The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has declared that the Muhammadu Buhari presidency should be held responsible if anything untoward happens to Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State.
The leading opposition party made the declaration on Thursday in its reaction to the attack on Ortom by the Presidency that he was responsible for spreading hatred.
The accusation of the presidency was hinged on Ortom’s assertion that the Buhari administration was favouring Fulani as an ethnic group against others.
Said the PDP: “Governor Ortom is a highly principled and forthright leader, who is loved not only in Benue, but also across the nation. The PDP urges Nigerians to hold the Buhari Presidency responsible should any harm come to him or his family members.”
Further in its reaction, PDP asserted that the Muhammadu Buhari Presidency was responsible for spreading division and hatred among Nigerians and not Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom.
In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, PDP said it recalled how the Buhari Presidency had been planting seeds of discord in the country with hate language, divisive tendencies and unconcealed nepotism, to the extent that the nation had become widely divided along all fault lines.
The statement reads further: “Nigerians have not forgotten how President Buhari, ahead of the 2011 general elections declared that “if what happened in 2011 should again happen in 2015, by the grace of God, the dog and the baboon would all be soaked in blood.”
“Moreover, Nigerians can recall how Mr. President tagged those whom he believed did not vote for him; how he described citizens as “dot in a circle,” as well as the hate language that attracted sanctions by Twitter.
“It is rather alarming that instead of taking steps to address the killings in Benue State as well as the worsening insecurity, carnages, banditry, terrorism and imminent humanitarian crisis in the country, the Buhari Presidency is thinking of Rwandan Genocide while exposing its deep-seated detestation for Governor Ortom.”
“As a party, the PDP demands that the Buhari Presidency should come clean on its handling of insecurity in the country. This is particularly against the backdrop of its manifest failure to battle and rout out terrorists, bandits, kidnappers and marauders that have taken over our highways, forests, pillaging communities and killing Nigerians on daily basis.
“Under President Buhari’s lethargic regime, bandits and terrorists have become so emboldened that they now attack military formations, including the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) where they killed and kidnapped officers for ransom.
“The PDP therefore calls on President Buhari to rein in his aides, wake up from his slumber and decisively address the worsening insecurity in the country under his watch,” the leading opposition party stressed.
