Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa state has said the recent protest against the Appeal Court judgement by individuals under the aegis of Coalition of Indigenous People of Nasarawa state has further exposed the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP’s) ethnic agenda in the state.
Sule further said the protest was equally a calculated attempt to discredit the courageous, sound and firm judgement of the Appeal Court and blackmail the nation’s judiciary for choosing to look at the appeal brought before it by the governor on its merit rather than primordial sentiments.
The governor, in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant (SSA) Public Affairs, Mr Peter Ahemba, and made available to newsmen on Monday in Lafia, explained that the PDP as a party and its leaders must be reminded that the state is highly diverse in terms of ethnic and religious beliefs and that no ethnic group or religion has the capacity to produce the governor of the state without the support of the others.
“We watched with great concern, another shameful outing by a group of individuals believed to have been hired by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Nasarawa state to stage an unwarranted protest against the recent verdict of the Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, which rightly set aside the split judgement of the governorship election petition tribunal in the state and affirmed Governor Abdullahi A. Sule as the lawfully elected governor of the state.
“We therefore condemned this show of desperation for power and urge security agencies in the state to note this dangerous rhetoric hovering very close to instigating hate amongst citizens by the opposition PDP and its sponsored groups in the state,” the statement said.
The statement noted that the call on the international community to intervene in the internal affairs of the state and tagging some ethnic groups as foreigners, is laughable and further exposed the opposition PDP of its ethnic agenda in the politics of Nasarawa state.