The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the outburst of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association, echoing the threats by the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Buhari’s Presidency, to force out the President of the Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki, from office if he fails to resign voluntarily.
The National Coordinator of Miyatti Allah Cattle Breeders Association in Benue State, Garus Gololo made the threat during an interview with Punch Newspaper correspondent on Tuesday.
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According to him, the Senate President should not remain in the office as he failed to organize the national assembly.
Gololo said “We are now tired of Saraki’s style of leadership at the National Assembly. Therefore, we are now warning him to honourably resign his position as President of the Senate or we will force him out.”
Reacting in a statement on Wednesday, the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Kola Ologbondiyan described the threat as unguarded which he further said exposed the synergy between the ruling party and “some troublesome elements”, who are instruments of division and violence which had resulted into bloodletting in various parts of the country.
PDP said “It is now abundantly clear to Nigerians that those fomenting crisis, including the bloody clashes in Benue, Taraba, Zamfara, Nassarawa, Plateau, Kaduna, Edo, Borno, Yobe, Enugu, Kogi, Adamawa and other states in our country, have political backers, who now want to channel them to achieve their unpatriotic quest to subvert our constitution and forcefully take over the National Assembly.
“Before now, to the majority of Nigerians, the Miyetti Allah has always represented the military wing of the APC and the Buhari Presidency. It is incontrovertible that they have now become the fourth arm of government that can determine when and how to forcefully remove the number three citizen, the President of the Senate.”
Mr President had in the past, been widely criticized for his refusal to address the unguarded statements of the Miyatti Allah Association.
The opposition party “demand that President Muhammadu Buhari, should within the next 24 hours, order the arrest and commence immediate trial of the leadership of this group, otherwise Nigerians will henceforth hold him directly responsible for the utterances and actions of the Miyetti Allah.
“Finally, the PDP is aware that Miyetti Allah does not represent the views and interests of the vast majority of cattle breeders or even any ethnic group in the country. We therefore urge all good spirited Nigerians to rise in condemnation of the actions and utterances of these misguided elements, who are being used to attempt a constitutional breach that portends grave danger to national cohesion and our hard-earned democracy.”
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