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| Minister of Defence, Brig. Gen. Mansur Dan Ali (retd.) |
The leadership of the All Progressives Congress
in Benue State, led by its Chairman, Abba Yaro, on Saturday, demanded the
immediate resignation of the Minister of Defence, Brig. Gen. Mansur Dan Ali
(retd.), for his “ridiculous, absurd statement aimed at bringing disgrace to
Nigeria democracy.”
The party said it read with utmost disgust the
frivolous statement credited to the minister where he reportedly told Nigerians
and other members of the public that the attacks on two communities in Benue
State that led to the death of over 74 people and destruction of properties
worth millions of naira were as a result of the open grazing prohibition law
enacted by the state government.
A statement by the Director of Publicity, Apeh
Peterhot, on behalf of the state party chairman, said the leadership considered
the statement by Ali as “a ridiculous absurdity,” and the highest level of
public disgrace to democracy and the Nigerian populace.
The statement read, “We have therefore been
constrained to believe that Mr. Mansur is a component unit of the perceived
conspiracy against the good and hospitably peace loving people of Benue State.
“As an integral part of the country, Nigeria, and
as a state that gave President Muhammadu Buhari an edge in the 2015 general
elections, we demand that Mansur Dan Ali (retd.) resigns his position as
Nigeria’s Defence Minister immediately and tender an unreserved apology to the
good people of Benue State and the country at large.
“As a founding member and major stakeholder in
our ruling party, the APC, we are forced to question Mansur’s real motive and
demand that he publicly explains to the party leadership why we should not consider
his reckless utterances as a deliberate ploy to truncate the party’s victory in
the 2019 general elections.
“Through his statement, as an insider, Mansur
appears to have been contracted by the opposition to work against the APC.”
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