11th November, 2011
Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, wants Kaduna state Governor, Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa to resign immediately over his inability to stop the frequent crises in the southern part of the state where he hails from.
ACN said the Yakowa government has failed woefully in providing security for the citizens of the state and therefore has no reason to be in office as a government.
The party also expresses concern over what it termed unnecessary killings and wanton destruction of property without any serious measure by the governor and the ruling party, PDP, to contain the Kafanchan and Zonkwa religious violence.
ACN in a statement signed by the state Publicity Secretary of the party, Mordecai Sunday Ibrahim said the state has witnessed the barbaric killings of innocent and law abiding citizens in all corners of the state in the last six months of the present administration while government has done nothing to arrest the situation.
While urging the warring groups in the areas to remain calm and law abiding, the party stated “this is not how to reward a people for voting an administration into power.â€
It equally condemned and described the crises that engulfed Kafanchan and Zonkwa as the worst because they were allowed to degenerate into religious and ethnic crises.
According to the party, the statement that Muslims and Christians in Kafanchan have taken up arms against one another is really unfortunate.
“It is unfortunate that the PDP-led government in the state allowed the situation to degenerate to this level particularly with Governor Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa as an indigene of Jema’a Local Government of the southern part of the state-â€
ACN also faulted the government for failing to adopt drastic measures to forestall further escalation of instability in Bitaro after the April 2011 post-election violence.
“What the people saw and are still seeing is the exhibition of gross negligence on the side of the PDP-led government.”
By Femi Adi/Kaduna