Dr Sani Abdullahi Shinkafi, a former governorship candidate in Zamfara and aide to ex-Governor Bello Matawalle, has responded to a latest publication by the Peoples Democratic Get together, PDP, that the Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, deserted his house state of Zamfara to coordinate the struggle in opposition to banditry in Sokoto State.
Shinkafi in an announcement he signed on behalf of the Patriots for Peace and Social Improvement, stated that a number of infamous armed bandits in Zamfara, Sokoto, Kebbi , Katsina, and Kaduna States have been neutralised just lately within the concerted and coordinated army operation within the area.
“Any governor, former governor, or retired army officer who distracts the continuing army operation within the North West area is a saboteur who desires to make use of insecurity as a conduit pipe to divert and siphon safety votes.
“Those that engaged on this unpatriotic act ought to desist from it, for God’s sake, and bear in mind that ahead of later, they are going to go away the workplace and account for his or her stewardship.
“To publish that the Minister of State for Defence deserted his house state of Zamfara to coordinate the struggle in opposition to banditry in Sokoto State is an assault on the sensibilities of Nigerians who want public security, peace and unity to mundane partisan politics that retards the nation’s democracy, ” he stated.
He famous that Matawalle had visited Sabon Birnin, Goronyo, Rabah, Isa Native Authorities Space of Sokoto, which shares boundary with Shinkafi Native Authorities Space in Zamfara State and Niger Republic the place these legal components simply smuggle arms and ammunition via the porous borders.
DAILY POST experiences that President Bola Tinubu had directed the Minister of State for Defence, the Chief of Defence Employees and different prime army officers to relocate to Sokoto at eighth Division of the Nigerian Military which covers Sokoto, Kebbi, Zamfara and Katsina States.
“President Bola Tinubu directed him to go to Sokoto State together with the Chief of Defence Employees to coordinate the struggle in opposition to banditry within the North West, to not Zamfara State, although the army operation covers Zamfara State the place the infamous bandit kingpin, Jamilu Sububu was neutralised in latest army operation in opposition to different armed bandits. Sadly, the identical PDP that has been irritating Matawalle’s effort in offering public security and order in Zamfara State particularly and the nation usually is the one sarcastically making noise that Matawalle operates from Sokoto as a substitute of Zamfara to flush out bandits within the North West,” he stated.
