THE immediate past National Caretaker Committee Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and Presidential hopeful under the party, Senator Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi has called on the Federal Government to stop the siege on Rivers State.
This was even as he called the FG to bring the top government official that is responsible for the incessant security threats to order.
Speaking with newsmen on Sunday, Makarfi who was reacting to the last Saturday’s aborted bye-election in the state maintained that the Government knows who was responsible for the carnage in the state.
To this end, he posited that President Muhammadu Buhari holds it a duty to Nigeria to call such person to order, saying that, ‘if not called to order the action of the individual is capable of causing a grievous havoc to Nigeria’s democracy.
“I have said it when I went to commission a project in Rivers that, one Governor that has been under the continuous siege, intimidation and harassment by the Federal Government is Governor Wike of Rivers State. It is uncalled for and this must stop.
“The yesterday election in Taraba went fine, but in Rivers, look at the disruption with the connivance of the security agencies involved. And we all know who in the Federal Government is responsible for this crisis in Rivers State.
“I watched a video of the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in charge of Rivers State, where he said that the security agents responsible for the crisis were not those engaged to secure the election process.
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“If it is true according to the REC that certain individuals were going around polling units with platoons of security men unchallenged, then the President should do something because that is injurious to our democracy.
“Nobody should be beyond being called to order. The person in the Federal Government that is consistently causing security breaches and the crisis in Rivers state must be called to order. The government knows him, we all know him.
“President holds it a responsibility to this nation, that individual should be called to order, otherwise, the havoc they can cause to our democracy and to our country will be grievous.
“INEC did the right thing by suspending the election. But beyond that, correction should be done, the security agencies must not allow themselves to be used by an interested party in the election to hijack the political process, whether in Rivers State or any part of this country. But the siege on the people and government of Rivers State must stop.” Makarfi said.
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