Worried by the increasing crime rate in the North, the Action Alliance (AA) has tasked the federal government to device means of making banditry kidnapping and other violent crimes thriving in the North less lucrative to discourage more people taking to crime.
Chairman, AA, Adekunle Rufai, who stated this while briefing journalists, Monday at the party’s national Ssecretariat in Abuja, said because insecurity was lucrative in northern Nigeria it has remained unabated.
Rufai noted that it was primary responsibility of government to protect the lives and property of the people hence the federal government should rise up and make good its campaign promise of providing adequate security for all. “Insurgency and banditry have become lucrative businesses especially in the Northern part of the country. There is palpable fear that if the status quo remains, banditry will spread to other parts of the country.
“For us at Action Alliance, we reiterate that the most important duty of the government is to secure lives and properties.
“We believe that rocket science is not required before the current administration can find a solution to the security challenges facing the country.
“Government must therefore rise up and make true the promises it made during the last electioneering campaign,” Rufai stated.
Speaking on the state of the party, the national chairman said the party remained united and free of faction, even as he maintained that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has AA authentic leadership list, which can be verified on the Commission’s website.
According to him, since the inception of his executive, the party has participated in over 20 elections including the Edo and Ondo governorship elections, several bye-elections, and the FCT Area Council election.
He disclosed that since the expulsion of one Kenneth Udeze, who parades himself as national chairman of the party, and his associates, Action Alliance has gone ahead to publish a media disclaimer on him.
Rufai said the party’s candidate in the forthcoming Anambra governorship election, Barr. Doreen Ifeoma Madunka Arinsa, would be unveiled by INEC as it does other party’s candidates on July 16, 2021.
“We have only one governorship candidate, who was elected on July 1, at the party’s headquarters in Anambra state, in the presence of security agents, press men and monitored by INEC.
“One thing about Kenneth Udeze, James Nwanigbe, and Barr. Malachy have been expelled from this party for almost two years now. If you paid attention to his convention and re-election, you would have noticed that there was no security there neither did INEC monitor it.
“…What Kenneth normally does is to invite pressmen, sitting down in one corner and shout that he has re-elected himself.
“If somebody said he has judgement to be the national chairman of our great party, just give the judgement to the press. Let the media have copies or publish it in any national daily,” he challenged, Udeze.
Speaking further he said: “We noticed that this man has turned this thing to business of collecting money in the name of this party, we know what it means to go to the media and publish a disclaimer in the median.
“We have been waiting for him to serve us court papers claiming billions we are waiting and know that he has no locus, he will never try it.”
