My colleagues gentlemen of the press, I wish to humbly welcome you to this crucial meeting that concerns life and death of innocent Zamfara citizens.
You are all well aware of the terrible happenings in our dear state where some of our innocent youths were attacked by PDP thugs yesterday, while they were celebrating the arrival of their governorship candidate, Dr. Dauda Lawal Dare.
You are also aware and witnesses to the order by the state government by His Excellency, the Executive Governor of the state, Dr. Bello Mohammed Matawalle banning all political party gatherings in the state due to the security situation which must be the concern of all.
As a party and as the party in power in the state, we feel highly disturbed by the dastardly act of the PDP thugs who used the coming of their candidate to destabilize the peaceful environment we were enjoying before the event.
Dr. Dauda Lawal who we very well know had no military attaché on his convoy, came in with people wearing military camouflage and raising suspicion that they are suspected bandits and to confirm our suspicion, the gang later shot at innocent citizens where we received reports that some of them lost their lives while 20 others received various degrees of gunshot injuries at the Yariman Bakura Specialist Hospital, Gusau.
For somebody wishing to become a governor and chief executive of the state, Mr. Dauda must explain to our peace loving people what he meant by this dastardly act which affected an underaged Qur’anic school pupil.
Although we have since called for calm on our members and supporters, we are still urging the security agents to unravel the intents of this attack, arrest the perpetrators, recover the arms they used in the attack and prosecute them.
With an order bordering on security and coming from the Chief Security Officer of the state, the PDP ought to have respected this by setting aside their political struggle and seeing public safety as paramount, because even the APC as the government in power has shelved political gatherings to allow for the return of peace in the state, so our desperation must not becloud our reasoning.
The attack has also opened our eyes to the fact that the PDP in the state in their desperate move to get power are planning with dangerous weapons and firearms to disrupt the upcoming 2023 general elections in the state.
