The People Democratic Party (PDP) governors forum has
condemned the attack on the convoy of Samuel Ortom, Benue state governor.
The forum charged the federal government to secure the lives
and human rights of all Nigerians regardless of political leanings.
In a statement released on Sunday, the forum warned that no
group of individuals should be brazen enough to take laws into their own hands.
The statement was signed by Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, chairman
of the forum and Sokoto state governor.
The statement reads: “The PDP-Governors Forum has received with
shock the assassination attempt on the Governor of Benue State, H.E. Dr Samuel
Ortom.
“We wish therefore to warn that any attempt to harm any
Nigerian will be viewed by the Forum as an attempt on all of us.
“We believe strongly that any dispute or perceived dispute
should be and must be resolved amicably without resort to violence. Nigeria is
not a Babana Republic, even though certain retrogressive elements and
centrifugal forces are trying to consign Nigeria into a failed state.
“It remains the primary responsibility of the government,
especially the Federal government, who have a monopoly of the coercive forces
of state, to secure the lives and livelihoods of our people, however low or
high. Every Nigerian deserves equal protection of the laws. Every citizen is
entitled to freedom of speech and free exercise of all rights guaranteed in the
Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, subject only to law.
“Nigeria is still a democracy and a nation of laws and not
men. Nobody, or group however highly placed should take the laws into their
hands, even though some highly placed Federal government ministers seem to have
surrendered to the nefarious activities of miscreants and mischief makers, bent
on destabilising the nation. Self help is an invitation to anarchy and must be
nipped in the bud.
On Saturday, Ortom’s motorcade was
ambushed at Tyo Mu along Makurdi-Gboko road while on a visit to a farm.
The governor has said police officers and operatives of the
Department of State Services (DSS) have commenced an investigation into the
attack.
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