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A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Alhaji Saleh Zazzaga, has described the renewed violence and killings in Plateau State as politically motivated.

More than 20 persons were reportedly killed in the Palm Sunday attack in Gariya Waye, Angwan Rukuba community in Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau State. The incident heralded a resurgence of killings in the state, leading to fears that the situation could degenerate to full blown breakdown of law and order.

However, in a statement he made available to journalists on Monday, Zazzaga, who is also Chairman of the North-Central All Progressives Congress, APC, Forum, said the killings are aimed at derailing the re-election of President Bola Tinubu, and discrediting Plateau State Governor Caleb Muftwang.

He also linked the insecurity in Plateau State to persons opposed to Muftwang's defection to the APC.

Zazzaga, while pointing out that the North-Central had pledged six million votes for Tinubu in 2027, alleged that ongoing killings in Plateau and Benue states are aimed at reducing Tinubu's votes in the forthcoming election.

"The ongoing attacks and killings in Plateau State are politically motivated. Those behind these killings are opposition politicians who want to derail Mr President's re-election in the 2027 elections. These are also people who want to discredit Governor Caleb Muftwang, knowing fully well that they can't stop his re-election.

"They know that with Governor Muftwang having defected to the APC, the chances are high that Mr. President will get 100 percent of the votes from Plateau State, so they have decided to sponsor violence to prevent that from happening.

"To create the impression that the administration is not performing, these individuals have decided to sponsor violent attacks and killings in defenceless communities. They know the natives are with Mr President and the governor, that is why they are engaging in mass killings, to reduce the native population and by so doing, reduce the votes that would go to Mr President in the coming election," Zazzaga said.

The APC chieftain, who is from Plateau State, linked the upsurge in attacks in the state to the unending cycle of violence in Benue, another North-Central state.

According to him, the native population in Plateau and the people of Benue are being targeted as part of a grand plot to undermine President Bola Tinubu's government.

Zazzaga noted that the North-Central, being the first zone to have six APC governors after Governor Muftwang's defection, is Tinubu's number one political stronghold, making the region a conspicuous target for the opposition.

"In the history of Nigeria, no President has cared about the needs of the North-Central more than Tinubu. He has demonstrated this by listening to our cries and agitations, through location of infrastructural projects and also with sensitive appointments.

"Because the opposition are afraid of the bloc votes that will come from the North-Central for President Bola Tinubu in 2027, they are now sponsoring violence and killings, not only to give the impression that Mr President is not working but also to reduce the voting population," Zazzaga added.

In the same vein, he warned clerics and other religious leaders against making utterances that further promote violence and killings.

He called on the security agencies to beam their searchlight on clerics whose preachings encourage violence.

"Some religious leaders are making unguarded utterances which contribute to the insecurity. I am advising them to stop before it is too late. Any right thinking religious leader should watch what he says to his congregation so as not to encourage violence. Being a religious leader comes with responsibilities which includes promoting peaceful coexistence among the people. Any religious leader that abandons this responsibility should face the consequences of his indiscretion," the APC chieftain stressed.

Zazzaga also urged the security agencies to take proactive steps in combatting insecurity in Plateau, Benue and other parts of the country. According to him, efforts to address insecurity should take into consideration political undertones behind the situation.

In the same vein, he thanked Tinubu for visiting Jos, Plateau State, in the wake of the Palm Sunday killings, noting that the gesture shows that the President is a leader who has empathy and feels the pains of the citizens.

"Suspending other crucial matters of state to visit Jos to show solidarity with the victims shows Mr President cares about Nigerians. He feels the pain of the people and I am glad that he has given the security agencies marching orders to apprehend the perpetrators. I implore all Nigerians to join hands with Mr President to address insecurity in all parts of the country. Security is everybody's business, not only for Mr President and the security agencies," Zazzaga stressed.

See a retard whose brain is far away from him. What is the value of a life lost to the political relevance of the vote? Families are mourning loss loved ones while this imp is saying shitcrap.

Some politicians are really callous and wicked. This man is one of such. These are the wicked souls that politicize and rationalize the incompetence of the seating government.

Truth.
Politicians are the major players in insecurities in the country.

Truth.
Politicians are the major players in insecurities in the country.
State police has to come to effect soon

There is no organization or gathering that breeds more wickedness than apc

These things are beyond description in evil

So does it mean that APC did the same to GEJ in 2014 - 2015?

This is using the lives of people to play politics.
You are invited power crying opposition using insecurity to reduce your vote.
Y not use your power to fish out the culprits

Too many retards in Apc.

Not necessarily Tinubu's votes as the presidential election is wide, it's mostly for local elections

Annoyingly, the people behind the attack would still be the first to pay visit to the victims and provide aids and reliefs. Evil eye service

It's good that some northerners are now coming out to authenticate what I have been saying for years. It's actually irrespective of any political party

You are as dumb as your drug baron and certificate forger president. Innocent people are dying because of the insensitive of this evil party call APC and you are here talking like a stranger. May God Almighty forgive you and your generation.

With his zig zag eyes.

Someone is finally speaking the truth.

Real northerners are actually seeing the systematic tendencies of the crime

Sheuns:
With his zig zag eyes.

You have no shame, like a toddler, mocking another human being's physical deficit. Why don't you go to the home for the blind, deaf and disabled to taunt them then?

Yet your kind will be pronouncing leaders as "wicked" and "heartless" plus "lacking compassion".

@Topic. It is not today the leaders of the North, at all levels, have embraced murderous terrorism as a way to sway how the electorate vote.

This is no new revelation. Precisely the reason why I said in another post that these born-to-rule and very callous supremacists are upset at how resolute Tinubu is at matching their energy. Their frustration is growing.

They will surely not win to return to power and destroy Nigeria totally. God forbid. Like someone said earlier, let State Policing be expedited and regional autonomy follow soonish.

After that, and with 'one Nigeria' menace sincerely reduced, folks will be more than welcomed to turn their region into worse than Afghanistan.

APC babablu way of reasoning.
They are only indicting APC who used bokoharam against Jonathan,

It is still same APC. APC should settle their bokoharam boys. They should give them what they promised them before 2015 elections.

garykoeman:
Someone is finally speaking the truth.

Real northerners are actually seeing the systematic tendencies of the crime

Indeed. It is a conspiracy they have been using from time immemorial no educated and truthful person can doubt because the entire world knows the leaders, in our whole universe, who care least about their people, and even deliberately dehumanised and underdevelop them, are Northerners.

Fact. Is it therefore Rocket science to work out that many leaders, at all levels, in the region have no compunction sending ordinary Northerners to their deaths for their own desperation to gain or retain political looting offices or government patronage?

Sad truth.. but those surrounding the President are painting a different picture to him. The North are scheming to remove him, forget all those decamping to APC, they can work against the party in 2027.

The President should do something about the killings and insecurity else North might succeed in removing him. With Igbos ever ready to vote against him (a Yoruba), most Yorubas might not support him in 2027 if they feel he is incompetent (yes, our people can be funny like that). The President should act now before it's too late.
#Nigerian lives matter.

Should we say same for goodluck Jonathan's tenure?

helinues:
Not necessarily Tinubu's votes as the presidential election is wide, it's mostly for local elections

Annoyingly, the people behind the attack would still be the first to pay visit to the victims and provide aids and reliefs. Evil eye service

It's good that some northerners are now coming out to authenticate what I have been saying for years. It's actually irrespective of any political party

The onus is on Tinubu to bring those perpetrators in to book and persecute them publicly.

Cashio:
Should we say same for goodluck Jonathan's tenure?

Did you say same because I didn't

So why is this a different case to you

helinues:
Did you say same because I didn't

Cashio:
So why is this a different case to you

Different as how? I have been alluding to that for years on this forum but people don't believe me