Face Banditry And Kidnapping Instead Of Making Your Office As APC Secretariat – PDP Governors Tell Buhari

Governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have told President Muhammadu Buhari to end issues of kidnapping, banditry, terrorism, and general insecurity affecting Nigeria instead of using his office as APC secretariat.

The governors submitted that the current administration must show the political will to end insecurity in the country using military equipment, traditional means, and technology.

The PDP Governors’ Forum, in a communique issued at the end of its meeting in Bauchi, the Bauchi State capital on Monday, accused the APC-led Federal Government of turning Nigeria into a killing field.

The  PDP governors’ communiqué was read by their Chairman and Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal.

The governors alleged that the President Muhammadu Buhari had turned Presidential Villa to the APC headquarters. They also accused the ruling party of turning the country into a killing field.

They also stated, “The meeting condemned the attempt to foist on all political parties, one method of conducting primaries, that is, by direct method only, through the Electoral Act Amendment Bill.

“The governors noted that the method is prone to massive rigging, as evidenced by a situation where President Buhari scored about 15 million votes in the 2018 APC direct primaries only to score 15 million votes from the entire country in the 2019 general election.

“The governors advised that political parties should be allowed to decide whether to use direct or indirect method of conducting primaries as part of internal democracy in political parties.”

“The meeting condemned, once again, the use of underhand tactics to arm-twist some PDP governors and other stakeholders to join the APC, a political party that has wrecked Nigeria’s economy, turned Nigeria into a killing field and has nothing to offer Nigerians but misery and bad governance.

“The governors condemned Mr President and the APC for turning the Presidential Villa, that belongs to all Nigerians, into the new APC headquarters, where coerced PDP members are being paraded at intervals.”

The forum condemned the increased cases of kidnapping, banditry and terrorism in the country, describing them as heinous crimes and not business ventures as claimed by the APC.

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The governors said that it was time for the Federal Government to urgently bring insecurity in the country to an end.

The governors stated, “On security of lives and properties, in addition to our earlier recommendations, it is time to bring the activities of bandits, kidnappers and terrorists to an end, through increased use of military equipment, traditional means of conflict resolution and technology for surveillance and the development of the political will to flush them out.

“Kidnapping, banditry and terrorism are not business ventures as claimed by the APC, but heinous state crimes, that are  destroying the Nigerian economy, the educational and social future of our children and causing significant social upheavals in society, the PDP governors admonished.”

The PDP governors called on the Federal Government to partner with state governments to create employment for the youth rather than paying lip service on the ease of doing business.

They said, “On the economy, the meeting admonished the APC Federal Government to collaborate more with state governments to stem unemployment scourge affecting the youth of Nigeria, through technology and increased production in all fields of endeavour.

“Government should stop paying lip service on the ease of doing business, as foreign direct investments have continued to fall partly due to obstacles placed on foreign companies wishing to invest in Nigeria.”

On the Electoral Act Amendment Bill, the governors said there was the need for free, fair and credible elections in the country and called on the National Assembly to entrench electronic transmission of results of elections in the nation’s electoral system.

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They stated, “The meeting requested the Independent National Electoral Commission, the only body empowered by the constitution to conduct elections, to deploy appropriate technologies necessary to ensure that the votes of every Nigerian is counted and made to count.

 “The meeting further called on the Nigerian Communications Commission, telephone companies and all relevant stakeholders to ensure that universal access and service of information and communication technologies  are provided especially in rural, un-served and under-served areas of the country before the 2023 general elections.”

The governors reiterated the need for the Nigerian National Petroleum  Corporation and other revenue-generating agencies of government to strictly abide by the constitution by remitting all their revenues less cost of production into the Federation Account as provided for by section 162 of the constitution.

They enjoined Nigerians to take advantage of the ongoing registration of voters by INEC to register, “thereby arming themselves with the necessary tools in the struggle to rescue Nigeria from the APC maladministration.

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On Sunday night at a dinner organised by the Bauchi State government for the PDP governors, Tambuwal said when the PDP  regained power in  2023, it would salvage the country.

He said that instead of tackling the Boko Haram menace upon which basis it seized power from the PDP in 2015, more “Boko Harams” had emerged in the last six years.

Tambuwal who was represented by the Taraba State Governor, Darius Ishaku, said that the PDP had the capacity to remove Nigeria from the quagmire the APC had thrown it into.

He said, “We have no hope except in the PDP. We will live in the PDP and salvage whatever is left in the country when we regain power in 2023. If you look around, all the PDP states are where there is work ongoing and I am sure I am speaking the facts and the minds of many Nigerians.

Newsflash Nigeria understands Governors present at the meeting were: Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia); Ahmadu Fintiri (Adamawa); Udom Emmanuel, (Akwa Ibom); Duoye Diri (Bayelsa); Samuel Ortom (Benue).

Others were: Ifeanyi Okowa (Delta); Godwin Obaseki (Edo); Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu); Seyi Makinde( Oyo); Nyesom Wike( Rivers) and Zamfara Deputy Governor Mahdi Aliyu.

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