Defence Minister Is A Disgrace To Democracy – APC

Nigeria’s Defence Minister has been lambasted after he faulted the open-
grazing law saying it was the reason for the killing by herdsmen taking place
in many parts of the country.
The Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali has been described as a disgrace to
democracy by the Benue State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC),
Saturday Sun has reported.
According to Saturday Sun, Dan-Ali was called a disgrace and told to resign
for telling Nigerians and other members of the public that the attack on two
communities in Benue that led to the death of over 70 innocent people and
destruction of properties worth millions of Naira was as a result of the open
grazing prohibition law enacted by the State Government.
State Chairman of the APC, Abba Yaro who also called for the resignation of
the Defense Minister and an apology to the state in a statement made
available to Sunday Sun averred that the statement credited to the Defense
Minister was a flatly ridiculous absurdity and the highest level of public
disgrace to democracy and the Nigerian populace.
“By this singular utterance, the Minister of Defence, Col. Muhammad Mansur
Dan Ali (rtd) has inarguably displayed incontestable lack of the required
sensibility and capacity to serve as Defence Minister in a country of over 180
million people with over 300 ethnic nationalities.
“As an integral part of the country, Nigeria and as a State that gave President
Muhammadu Buhari an edge in the 2015 general elections, we demand that
Col. Mansur Dan Ali (rtd) resigns his position as Nigeria’s Defence Minister
immediately and tender an unreserved apology to the good people of Benue
State and the country at large.” Yaro said.
The Party questioned the real motive behind Dan-Ali’s statement and
demanded that he publicly explains to the party leadership why his reckless
utterances should not be considered as a deliberate ploy to truncate the
party’s victory in the 2019 general election.
“Through his statement, as an insider, Dan-Ali appears to have been
contracted by the opposition to work against the APC. Minister Mansur
apparently is one of those who are working against the unity of Nigeria and
must be stopped now before he and others with such parochial, hateful,
divisive and repulsive tendencies plunge the country into deeper crisis.
“In as much as we would not dignify Col. Mansur with obnoxious affronts, we
would again want to inform him that he is not just an ingrate, but an
unrepentant pathological opportunist who was in his farm working for the PDP
when many of us toiled the nooks and crannies of this country to ensure
victory for President Muhammadu Buhari in the election that brought him
(Buhari) to power through which he (Mansur) is one of the biggest
beneficiaries.” the statement added.
The party however declared its support for Governor Samuel Ortom, and
reiterated its commitment towards making the open grazing prohibition law
our number one priority in the State.