BENUE State chapter of All Progressives Congress(APC), in Benue State, has demanded the immediate resignation of Minister of Defence over his statement which he said aimed to bring disgrace to democracy in the country.
The State party chairman, Comrade Abba Yaro was reacting to the Minister of Defense statement adducing the promulgation of anti-open grazing law as the immediate reason for the attacks on the state during the new year.
In a statement signed by the party’s director of publicity, Apeh Peterhof, on behalf of the state chairman, said the leadership considered the statement by Dan Ali, as a flatly ridiculous absurdity, and the highest level of public disgrace to democracy and the Nigerian populace.
It further said the Minister of Defence, has inarguably displayed incontestable lack of the required sensibility and capacity to serve as Defence Minister in a country of over 180 million people with over 300 ethnic nationalities.
”We have therefore been constrained to believe that Mr Mansur is a component unit of the perceived conspiracy against the good and hospitably peace-loving people of Benue State.”
”As an integral part of the country, Nigeria and as a State that gave President Muhammadu Buhari an edge in the 2015 general elections, we demand that Col. Mansur Dan Ali (rtd) resigns his position as Nigeria’s Defence Minister immediately and tender an unreserved apology to the good people of Benue State and the country at large.”
”As a founding member and major stakeholder in our ruling party, the APC, we are forced to question Col. Mansur’s real motive and demand that he publicly explains to the party leadership why we should not consider his reckless utterances as a deliberate ploy to truncate the party’s victory in the 2019 general election. Through his statement, as an insider, Mansur appears to have been contracted by the opposition to work against the APC,” the party.
The party said in as much as they would not dignify the minister with obnoxious affronts, they would again want to inform the minister that he did not toil the nooks and crannies of this country to ensure victory for President Muhammadu Buhari in the election that brought him (Buhari) to power through which he (Mansur) is one of the biggest beneficiaries.
It accused the Minister of being amongst those who are working against the unity of Nigeria and must be stopped now before he and others with such parochial, hateful, divisive and repulsive tendencies plunge the country into deeper crisis.
The leadership of Apc in the state, however, reiterated its commitment towards making the open grazing prohibition law work in the State.
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