Insecurity: APC urges Nigerian govt to declare state of emergency on Zamfara

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Zanfara State on Saturday asked the Federal Government to declare a state of emergency on the state because of the lingering security challenges.

The party made the call in a statement issued in Gusau by its Publicity Secretary state, Yusuf Idris.

Idris said: “We are appealing to President Bola Tinubu to enforce a state of emergency in the state over insecurity.

“People of Zamfara have lost confidence in the ability of the administration of Governor Dauda Lawal to deal with the security situation in the state.

“The Zamfara APC chapter commended the ongoing onslaught on bandits and terrorists in the state by the military in the North-Western states under the coordination and supervision of the Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle.”

The party said the ongoing military operations in the North-West as directed by Tinubu are certainly yielding unpredictable unprecedented results.

He added: “Bandits’ leaders and their gangs have been subdued by the current development of the Federal Government’s fight against banditry.

“This is very impressive and needs to be sustained at all costs so that the region will be free from all forms of criminality.

“As a party, we observe with dismay how the Zamfara Government is trying to sabotage the ongoing onslaught through his media campaigns.

”This is to distract the effort of the federal government under the coordination of the Minister of State for Defence.

“We have observed that Lawal as the Governor of the state has never in anyway supported the military operations in the state in terms of logistics.”

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