It’s shameful to blame us for Southern Kaduna killings, PDP blasts presidency

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– The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is highly displeased that presidential spokesman Garba Shehu has blamed it for Fulani herdsmen killings in Southern Kaduna

– The party warned the presidency and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to desist from playing politics with everything, including the lives of innocent Nigerians

– The PDP also demanded that Garba Shehu should be sacked by President Muhammadu Buhari for making such a statement

Garba Shehu has come under fire for insinuating that PDP has its own blame in Southern Kaduna killings

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has expressed great displeasure at attempts to blame the opposition for Fulani herdsmen killings in Southern Kaduna.

The party, in a statement released late on Monday, January 23 by Prince Dayo Adeyeye, its national publicity secretary and acquired by ZENITHBLOG.com, wondered why its name should be called in killings that were clearly perpetrated by Fulani cattle breeders.

READ ALSO: Fani-Kayode urges Christians to resist herdsmen after alleged fresh violence in Kaduna

The party then warned the presidency and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) not to play politics with the lives of innocent Nigerians.

The statement read: “We condemn in totality the statement credited to the Senior Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity (SSA), Garba Shehu, on Channels Television today, Monday, January 23, 2017 wherein he shamelessly alleged that the killings in Southern Kaduna is partly the fault of the PDP because it is the only Senatorial District in the North West with PDP Senator. How sad!

“We are baffled that such a callous, irresponsible and insensitive statement could come from a person who speaks for the President of Nigeria. This shows the extent to which every issue in the Country today is viewed from the APC’s and the Presidency’s extremely narrow and jaundiced partisan political prism.

“Is Garba Shehu inferring that the hapless people of

southern Kaduna were singled out for genocide because they elected a PDP senator? Or that the People invited such mindless violence upon themselves by choosing to be different in a sea of APC domination? Or is the Southern Kaduna massacre really an action to teach the people a bitter lesson for voting PDP and not APC? It is really unimaginable that any reasonable person can make such a reckless statement.

“One really wonders when the APC would finally accept responsibility for its incompetence and maladministration and end the blame game. They have spent the last two years doing nothing but blame the PDP for their woes. They will from all indications, spend the next two years doing the same. May be that’s what they were elected to do after all. Even then, they need not descend to the gutter as Garba Shehu did on Channels TV this morning.

READ ALSO: 15 dead as Fulani herdsmen attack Benue community

“It is high time those in authority learned that we cannot reduce everything to partisan politics. You do not play politics with the lives of millions of people. That’s exactly what APC Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir el Rufai and President Buhari have been doing with the lives of the people of Southern Kaduna. Beyond politics, we are all accountable to God Almighty.”

The PDP also demanded that Garba Shehu should be sacked by President Muhammadu Buhari for making such a statement.

“…We call on Garba Shehu to tender an unreserved apology to all Nigerians for his unguarded, reckless and irresponsible statement failing which we would call on President Buhari to relieve him of his duties.”

Meanwhile, Yusuf Usman Garba, youth leader of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigerian (MACBAN), has listed conditions for lasting peace in Southern Kaduna

Garba listed this while condemning the “illegal” road blocks being allegedly used to “attack Fulani in Southern Kaduna.”

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