Crimes

Killings: Group urges Plateau Reps member to work with Gov Mutfwang

A group, Peace and Good Governance Advocates (PEGGA), has urged the member of the House of Representatives representing Pankshin/Kanam/Kanke Constituency of Plateau State, Yusuf Gagdi, to shun what it described as his divisive comments on the crisis in the state.

Reacting to Gagdi’s assertions against Governor Caleb Mutfwang and claims of lopsided killings in his constituency, the group in the statement issued by its national coordinator, Mani Imman, on Wednesday, September 13, 2023, urged the lawmaker to put politics aside and join all other stakeholders to work for the peace of the state.

The lawmaker had described Mutfwang as an “isolationist” over the latter’s failure to meet him on the killings in his constituency.

The group noted that the lawmaker’s assertions came a day after Remi Tinubu, the wife of President Bola Tinubu, visited Plateau State and put aside political considerations to join hands with the state government in addressing the needs of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the state.

PEGGA said: “We find the claims of our lawmaker, Rep Yusuf Gagdi that the governor is isolationist because he did not visit him or invite him to meet with him as provocative and unbecoming.

“It is unfortunate that at a time that genuine statesmen from across the divide are putting heads together to address the crisis in Plateau our lawmaker, Rep Yusuf Gagdi, would go on national television to fan embers of disunity as unbecoming of his status.

“We want to address Rep Gagdi that politics is over, voters have made their choices and he has to live with the decision of the electorate. Every leader in Plateau should focus on building bridges and not on dividing us as the assertions made by Gagdi seem to portray.

“If the governor did not visit him or call on him while in Abuja it does not warrant the claim of the governor being isolationist.

“Indeed, we call on the lawmaker to also on his part make efforts to reach out to the governor for him to have a fairer assessment of the situation in Plateau instead of him purveying his biased views from comments he hears in Abuja by telephone.

“It is regrettable that just hours after the First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu left the state after her peace building and philanthropic trip Rep Gagdi went on television to try and undo her mission.”

The Star