A former Governor of Sokoto State,
Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa, on Friday said that there would be no elections in
Nigeria in 2019 if the Federal Government failed to restore peace to Benue
State. Bafarawa made the statement during a condolence visit to Governor Samuel
Ortom of Benue State at the Government House in Makurdi, the state capital, to
commiserate with him and the people of the state over the killings of 73
persons on January 1, 2018, by suspected Fulani herdsmen.
Bafarawa said, “Why would there be
an election in 2019 when there is no peace? The most important thing you can
bring to a society is peace. When you bring peace to them, you have brought
life and can then talk about the election.”
Speaking further, Bafarawa said that
while it was the duty of the Federal Government to put serious efforts to
restore peace in Benue State and other parts of the country, President Muhammadu
Buhari must involve other stakeholders, irrespective of political affiliation,
to solve the problem.
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