The Governor of Adamawa State, Murtala Nyako, has said the suspension of key members of the Abubakar Baraje-led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party has not only killed the peace process, it has buried it.
Nyako, who said this on Tuesday, was reacting to Monday’s suspension of the factional chairman of the party, Alhaji Abubakar Baraje, the party’s National Secretary, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, and Senator Ibrahim Kazaure by the Alhaji Bamanga Tukur-led PDP.
He explained that the PDP under Tukur’s leadership shot itself in the leg by ignoring a legitimate court order to reinstate Oyinlola and taking actions which had “killed and buried” the peace process.
Nyako, who spoke through his Director of Press and Public Affairs, Ahmad Sajo, said he had always known that nothing good would come out of the discussions with a PDP where Tukur remained the national chairman.
He said, “We always knew there was no peace process. The peace process is dead and buried. The court had given them a soft landing but instead of obeying the court order, look at the step they have taken.
“It’s an ill wind that will blow nobody any good. We know that they are not committed to peace; Bamanga Tukur will lead this party to destruction.
“The President should think of the legacy he will leave behind and not allow himself to be led astray by people like Tukur.”
In a speech he delivered at a parley with members of the Bishops and Emminent Clerics Forum of Nigeria, Niger-Delta Chapter, in Yola, Nyako said he was no longer prepared to work with the PDP.
Nyako said, “Let me quote one statement in one of our Great Books, the Holy Bible; ‘Can two walk together except they be agreed’ to do so?
“We in Adamawa State have resolved not to ‘walk together’ with massive wrongdoers and cannot tolerate impunity and lawlessness by the national leadership of any political party located in Abuja, because that would be tantamount to inviting chaos and anarchy to our beloved state.
“We cannot and shall not ‘walk together’ with the evil-few of Adamawa indigenes with their cohorts residing in Abuja who wish us ill, calamity and destruction.
“These are the same fellows who must have brought about the declaration of state of emergency on Adamawa State six months ago and the renewal of the emergency rule a few days ago.”