The Senator representing Plateau North Senatorial District and presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Jonah Jang, has called on President Muhammdu Buhari and Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State to “resign with immediate effect.”
According to Jang, Buhari and Lalong have “displayed unfathomable insensitivity and cluelessness in the aspects of security and value for human life”.
Jang who was reacting to the killing of several persons in Rukuba road on Thursday night, called on the United Nations to intervene in country and act on behalf of the “poor, innocent, and abandoned people”.
The Presidential aspirant, who spoke through his Media Consultant, Clinton Garuba, lamented that under the current administration; hardly a day passes without news of people getting killed by herdsmen or unknown gunmen.
He said, “The Senator representing Plateau North Senatorial District Dr. Jonah David Jang with a heavy heart and deep sense of grief condemns in the strongest possible terms, the invasion of Rukuba Road, Jos North Plateau State, a few kilometers from the 3rd Armoured Division of the Nigerian Army on Thursday night.
“The unprovoked attack, which targeted innocent unarmed natives in their homes once again reveals the very short life expectation of our people who are no longer safe wherever they are in our towns, villages, and city.
According to the presidential hopeful, “This recent surge of mindless killings in Plateau State is a damning appraisal to the Federal Government under President Muhammadu Buhari and the Governor of Plateau State.
“Under the current administration, hardly a day passes by without news of people getting killed by herdsmen or unknown gunmen with ancestral lands forcefully occupied and people rendered homeless and internally displaced on their own land,” he lamented.
“Before we are all wiped out from the face of the earth by gunmen whose farmiliarization with murder and violence seem to confound our Armed Forces and the overall structure of government.”
The Senator without equivocation hereby, “calls on President Muhammdu Buhari and Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State to resign with immediate effect having displayed unfathomable insensitivity and cluelessness in the aspects of security and value for human life”.
“In addition, it is the determination of Senator Jonah David Jang, that Nigerians no longer feel safe with General Muhammdu Buhari as President.
“Therefore, he wishes to call on the United Nations to intervene in Nigeria and act on behalf of the poor, innocent, and abandoned people of Plateau State and their endangered kinds in the Middle-belt, to protect and guarantee them a future of longevity, pride, and prosperity.
“A situation where security officials are mobilized to militarize the conduct of elections in a ratio of one policeman to one citizen at the expense of communities prone to attacks is unacceptable”, he decried.
While calling on the youths and people of Plateau State to be law abiding, the Senator said he finds it instructive to admonish them, “to rise up to defend themselves within the perimeters of the law, as it is now dangerous to trust the Commander-in-Chief with our security”.
“Importantly, the Senator representing Plateau North is using this medium to call on the Armed Forces to live up to their sworn duty to protect Nigerians before the public completely loses faith in them.”
