Nyako’s letter to northern govs shocking -PDP The Peoples Democratic Party on Tuesday came down hard on the Governor of Adamawa State, Murtala Nyako, over the letter he wrote to his northern colleagues on the insurgency in the North[-East. The PDP described Nyako’s memo as shocking. Nyako had in the memo, addressed to his colleagues in the Northern Nigeria Governors Forum, likened the ongoing military action against the insurgents in the North-East to the activities of the mastermind of the holocaust against the Jews, Adolf Hitler of Germany. The Adamawa state governor also raised the alarm that President Goodluck Jonathan, who he described as a President from the former South-East, was carrying out a genocide against Fulani people in the country. The National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Chief Olisah Metuh, said in a statement on Tuesday that it was shocking for such a letter to have emanated from an elected person. Metuh charged Nyako to desist from writing such a memo, which he described as tendencious, and to take a cue from other leaders of the All Progressives Congress, who according to him, had started guiding their utterances in reaction to PDP statements linking such utterances with insurgency and the escalation of violence in the society. “Governor Nyako must desist from such and learn from other APC leaders who are now comporting themselves better as a response to PDP statements, which succeeded in exposing the link between their unguarded utterances and escalation of violence and insurgency in our nation,” he said He said the PDP would continue to caution the APC leaders against making statements that could “fuel violence and motivate insurgency in the country.” The PDP spokesman said the party would continue to criticise inciting comments of APCs leaders on the issue of terrorism in the country. He stressed that the PDP had spoken on the negative impact of the utterances of politicians and had come to the conclusion that the statements issued by the party had “sobered” some of the APC politicians
Posted on: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 20:48:52 +0000
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