The National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Adams
Oshiomhole, has absolved herdsmen of the killings in some states of the
federation.
He stated that those “turning the truth upside down to portray” the
administration of President Muhammadu Buhari in a bad light were linking
herdsmen to all the killings in some states in the country.
Oshiomhole said this at a rally in Abakaliki on Saturday.
The former Edo State governor assured Nigerians that President
Muhammadu Buhari and security agencies were working hard to end
insecurity in the country.
He urged Nigerians not, “to allow themselves to be deceived by the
antics of selfish politicians in the country who are trying to give the
security challenges in the country an ethnic colouration in order to
score cheap political points.”
Oshiomhole noted that the security challenges were a ploy “to portray
the government of President Muhammadu Buhari in bad light by portraying
all the killings in some states in the country as the handiwork of
herdsmen.
“Let me urge you to be more careful because this season, people are
spreading untruth. People are being hired to turn the gospel upside
down. They want us to believe that every problem should be explained in
ethnic and religious terms.
“We have a problem and we must confront those problems. Criminals
must be dealt with individually as criminals and government at all
levels must work hard to protect every Nigerian regardless of tribe or
religion.”