The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has
given President Muhammadu Buhari 24 hours to order the arrest and trial
of the leaders of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association (MACABAN)
for threatening to forcefully remove Senate President Bukola Saraki from
office......
The 24-hour ultimatum by the main
opposition party is coming as the national body of MACABAN, which the
PDP also described as the military wing of the All Progressives Congress
(APC), has dissociated itself from the threat to Saraki, saying the
official, who issued the threat, did not speak for the group.
Also, the Benue State Government has
berated the association for threatening the Senate president, declaring
that the group has assumed the leadership of the country.
The Coordinator of MACABAN in Benue
State, Mr. Garus Gololo, had reportedly threatened Saraki to resign or
be forced out of office.
“We are saying that Saraki ought not to
be in office again as Senate President, more so, Saraki has failed to
coordinate and organize the National Assembly to offer quality
legislation that Nigerians need,” Gololo reportedly said, adding: “We
are now tired of Saraki’s style of leadership at the National Assembly.
Therefore, we are now warning him to honorably resign his position as
president of the Senate or we will force him out.”
Reacting to the threat, PDP Wednesday
described the outburst of MACABAN, which it said echoed the threats by
the APC and agents of the Buhari presidency, to force out Saraki from
office as ominous and revealing.
In a statement by its National Publicity
Secretary, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, the main opposition party said the
unguarded statement by Miyetti Allah has exposed the synergy between the
ruling party and some troublesome elements, who are being used to stoke
division and create violent crisis that has resulted into daily bloodletting's in various parts of the country.
“However, in the light of these
treasonable and inciting utterances by Miyetti Allah, we 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,” the PDP said.
The party alleged that before now,
majority of Nigerians had thought that the Miyetti Allah represented the
military wing of the APC and the Buhari presidency.
“It is now abundantly clear to Nigerians
that those fomenting crisis, including the bloody clashes in Benue,
Taraba, Zamfara, Nasarawa, 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,” the statement added.
According to the main opposition party,
it is incontrovertible that the group has now become the fourth arm of
government that can determine when and how to forcefully remove the
number three citizen.
“It is common knowledge that President
Buhari has come under heavy public criticisms on how his body language
has condoned the unguarded utterances and actions of these characters,”
the party added.
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