The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo State has asked Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa to tackle insecurity ravaging parts of the state instead of paying attention to frivolities.
Alternatively, the party asked President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to declare a state of emergency to prevent the incessant killing of farmers and kidnapping for ransom innocent citizens going about their lawful businesses.
The opposition party, in a statement titled “Be Proactive to Your Duty” and signed by Director of Media and Publicity, Mr Leye Igbagbo, said the residents of the state are not afraid to go about their lawful business because of insecurity.
The PDP expressed regret for the ceaseless killings of hapless residents of the state whose, it said main offence is that they lawfully engaged in their daily activities needed to bring food to their tables.
Igbagbo in his statement said “The Party cannot in all honesty, find reasons why such assailants could operate without any form of resistance in a state where there is a valid government in place and which constitutional duty as enshrined in Section 14(2)b of the 1999 constitution as amended, is to secure and protect lives and property of its citizens.
“It is heart-wrenching to note that in less than one month, about fifty persons have been gruesomely massacred in various settlements within the State and sadly, no arrest or prosecution has been made since then. The party is therefore wondering if a government still exists in Ondo State in the face of these unprovoked and unrestrained killings.
“The Peoples Democratic Party Ondo State Chapter frowns at this horrible situation and sincerely admonishes the State Governor to desist from playing politics with the lives of harmless residents who he swore to protect, in the first instance.
“These killings are one too many and indicative of helplessness and hopelessness possibly occasioned by huge compromise of those in government.
“The party is, by this statement, equally drawing the kind attention of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, to these crude and unwarranted killings and to note the incapacitation of the State Government in tackling the growing menace.
“The kind attention of Mr. President, under the prevailing circumstances, is to prepare him to humbly consider the declaration of a state of emergency if the State government continues to demonstrate a lack of capacity to halt the senseless killings before the State, the whole Southwest is turned to slaughter-house for incessant spilling of the blood of innocent souls.”
