Nasarawa State Governor Abdullahi Sule has ordered an investigation into the conduct of safety businesses and suspects in the course of the violent disruption of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential marketing campaign rally in Lafia, the state capital, on Wednesday.
The governor gave the directive on Thursday throughout an expanded State Executive Council assembly at the Government House, Lafia, following the conflict that reportedly left about 40 individuals injured.
In a press release issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Media Affairs, Ali Abare, Governor Sule questioned the circumstances surrounding the use of tear fuel at the rally, notably across the podium.
He described the incident as embarrassing and unacceptable, particularly given the presence of the vice chairman, who attended the rally on behalf of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
“The embarrassment was not to the state or the Presidential Campaign Council alone. It was an embarrassment to the Vice President on behalf of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. That is the reason why we cannot take it lightly,” he stated.
The governor directed safety businesses to ask and query everybody suspected of having a task within the incident, irrespective of their earlier positions or standing.
He insisted that the investigation ought to transcend arresting just a few suspected youths, stressing that those that allegedly deliberate, sponsored, or masterminded the disruption should even be recognized and held accountable.
“We can’t, at the top of the day, after having such a humiliation, simply go and arrest 5 or 6 Almajiris and say that’s the finish of it. It is not going to work.
The individuals answerable for this have to be referred to as to order,” he said.
Governor Sule additionally expressed concern over studies that some people had allegedly deliberate to disrupt the rally earlier than it happened.
He additional cited the reported assault on the Vice President’s convoy and the throwing of an object suspected to be a shoe in direction of the rostrum the place Shettima and different governors have been standing.
He warned towards permitting political disagreements to degenerate into violence, cautioning that such developments may threaten peace and stability within the state.
“I don’t need us to behave like them. If we behave like them, imagine me, the state will change into ungovernable.
While commending the navy, the State Security Service (SSS) and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) for his or her intervention in the course of the incident, Mr Sule stated he convened the assembly to make sure that all considerations surrounding the violence have been correctly introduced earlier than additional motion was taken.
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Earlier, the state authorities had linked former governor and senator, Umaru Al-Makura, in addition to the Social Democratic Party (SDP) governorship candidate and former Inspector-General of Police, Adamu Abubakar, to the violence.
In a separate assertion signed by the Secretary to the State Government, Labaran Magaji, the state authorities described the incident as an ignoble act allegedly perpetrated by some irate youths suspected of having connections with distinguished personalities.
The authorities referred to as for accountability over the incident, which disrupted the APC presidential marketing campaign rally and raised considerations about political violence and safety administration within the state.
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