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ZAMFARA GOVT EXPOSES PLOT TO CAUSE
CRISIS
The Zamfara State
Government has raised alarm over plot allegedly by the immediate
past governor of the state, Senator Ahmed Yerima to destabilize the
state.
The state Commissioner for Information, Alhaji Ibrahim Danmaliki,
while addressing newsmen in Kaduna yesterday declared that the
people of the state should hold the senator responsible for any
breach of the peace in the state.
He alleged that the former governor has been holding clandestine
meetings with the sole aim of inciting the people against the
government of Governor Mahmud Aliyu Shinkafi.
Danmaliki added that “Senator Yerima is trying to create a situation
of quarrel and in the process creating tension in the state by
heating up the polity after doing that, he looked for an amicable
settlement of the situation , thereby making it look as if it is the
governor that is causing the problems.”
The commissioner warned that the state would no longer tolerate a
situation whereby it would look as if there was quarrel between the
governor and his predecessor, “where as it is the Senator that has
been causing confusion in the state just to distract the
developmental programmes of the government.”
Danmaliki said it was imperative to alert Nigerians and the people
of Zamfara State in particular over the former governor’s ploy to
divert the attention of the incumbent governor from his
developmental efforts, adding “he is doing all this so that Governor
Shinkafi does not succeed.”
According to him, while Governor Shinkafi was interested in ensuring
that peace reigns supreme in the state, he (Senator Yerima) shuns
most of the peace moves “even when the same meeting is called at the
instance of the former governor, Senator Yerima.”
“For instance, there was a meeting for an amicable settlement of a
supposed quarel called by the Emir of Zazzau, Alhaji Shehu Idris and
the recent one that was supposed to hold at the instance the deposed
Emir of Gwandu, Alhaji Al-Mustapha Haruna Jokolo on Sunday (August
17, 2008) but could not take place,” he disclosed.
The commissioner further alleged that “while we were waiting here in
Kaduna for the meeting, we understood that Senator Yerima was
holding meeting with his people in Zamfara plotting their moves to
make the state ungovernable.”
He added that Senator Yerima was fond of going to the press to give
different pictures of the scenario in the state, “whereas he is the
one always holding meeting to plot the governor’s down fall.”
The commissioner said the former governor “is simply afraid of his
past,” pointing out that the adminstration of Alhaji Mahmud Shinkafi
will not witch-hunt any law abiding citizen but entitled to look
into past records.
The commissioner stated further that “despite all that the former
governor has done, the government is still responsible for all his
medical expenses, family maintenance and other fringe benefits. We
want to tell the people of Zamfara state in particular and Nigerians
in general that nothing is amiss. Senator Yerima is only afraid of
his past . This is a responsible government that will not go out of
its way to witch-hunt anybody.”
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