PDP wants Bello on threat watchlist
* Calls on IGP to commence investigations;
* Says Bello threat capable truncating democracy;
* Urges Kogi people not to be deterred
Atiku Abubakar, Bola Tinubu, arrowheads of the two major political parties jostling for votes from millions of Nigerian people. The Peoples Democratic Party, says Governor Yahaya Bello’s threat to send Kogi people who oppose his party to early graves is likely to truncate the nation’s democracy.
To this end, the party has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to call the governor to order and place him on the administration’s watchlist.
In a statement placed on its official Twitter handle, the PDP described Governor Bello’s comments in a video that is making the rounds as extreme and an act of terrorism that is capable of instigating violence.
APC, PDP party flags..the struggle for power begins in Kogi State and across the country.In the video which has gone viral, Bello is heard saying, “I will personally light a fierce fire in my hand, whoever want it we shall use it to burn them, whoever survive it will thank God…
“Whoever is against us, we will make him or her join my mother and lie with her (my mother) in grave.”
Urging the Presidency to do something about Bello, the PDP stated, “This threat to violence and actual violence to Nigerians especially at this time have the capacity to cause a breach of public peace, truncate the 2023 electoral process and derail our democracy.
“The PDP therefore calls on President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately call Governor Yahaya Bello to order and place him and his supporters on security watch list as threat to democracy ahead of the 2023 general elections.”
President Muhammadu Buhari put under pressure by the PDP to enter the name of Governor Yahaya Bello on nation’s watchlistThe main opposition party also called on the Inspector General “to immediately commence a comprehensive investigation into the activities of Governor Bello with a view to nipping this ugly trend in the bud as well as prosecuting him at the end of his tenure as Governor of Kogi State.”
According to the PDP, “This brazen threat by Governor Yahaya Bello raises apprehensions in the public space of the existence of a killer squad established to inflict violence on Nigerians ahead of the 2023 general elections just because they have rejected the corrupt, divisive and rudderless APC, which failure is most manifest by Yahaya Bello’s abysmal performance in Kogi State.
“From his outburst, Nigerians now know the individuals who engineered the gruesome killing of many of our citizens including the PDP Woman Leader in Kogi State, Mrs. Salome Abu, who was burnt alive in her house in 2019.
“Also, Nigerians now have more insight into the disappearance of Hon. Adelabu Musa, the PDP Chairman in Okene Local Government Area for over three years now.”
The PDP urged Nigerians not to be deterred by the actions and utterances of reactionary elements in the APC like “Yahaya Bello whose days in office are numbered.”
It said this is the time for Nigerians to “remain vigilant and continue to rally with the PDP” in its “determination to liberate our nation from the stranglehold of the APC.”