The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration to focus on tackling insecurity challenge instead of attacking governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state over his recent channels TV interview.
The presidency had, on Wednesday, condemned Ortom over an interview where he accused Buhari of ethnic bias.
Presidency accused the governor of “using language reminiscent of the Rwandan genocide”.
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Reacting to the issue in a statement on Thursday, PDP’s spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan said: “The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) asserts that the Buhari Presidency is responsible for spreading division and hatred among Nigerians and not Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom, as claimed in the Presidency’s press release,”
“PDP’s position is against the backdrop of an inciting hate statement issued by the Buhari Presidency in a bitter personal attack on Governor Ortom on Wednesday, in which the Presidency made allusions to genocides in Rwanda.
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“The PDP recalls how the Buhari Presidency has been planting seeds of discord in the country with hate language, divisive tendencies and unconcealed nepotism, to the extent that our nation has become widely divided along all fault lines.
“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.”
He further added that the president should “wake up from his slumber and decisively address the worsening insecurity in the country”
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