{"id":18402,"date":"2018-04-25T21:05:45","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T21:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=18402"},"modified":"2018-04-25T21:07:11","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T21:07:11","slug":"benue-killings-nigeria-is-sliding-dangerously-under-apc-pdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=18402","title":{"rendered":"BENUE KILLINGS: NIGERIA IS SLIDING DANGEROUSLY UNDER APC &#8211; PDP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"atr5b\" data-offset-key=\"1rqa0-0-0\">\n<div data-offset-key=\"1rqa0-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"1rqa0-0-0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Sheriff.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-18350\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Sheriff.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"561\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Sheriff.jpg 1080w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Sheriff-300x86.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Sheriff-768x219.jpg 768w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Sheriff-1024x292.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 561px) 100vw, 561px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"1rqa0-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"1rqa0-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"1rqa0-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"1rqa0-0-0\">The National Chairman of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus has charged the Presidency to halt the senseless killings going on in Benue state immediately before it degenerates into a national crisis.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"atr5b\" data-offset-key=\"14p90-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"14p90-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"14p90-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"atr5b\" data-offset-key=\"4je4h-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"4je4h-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"4je4h-0-0\">Prince Secondus said in a condolence message he sent to the Benue State Governor Dr. Samuel Ortom and the Catholic Church in Nigeria on the Tuesday Morning&#8217;s brutal murder of two Catholic priests and 17 other worshippers of St Ignatius Quashi Catholic Church parish in Ukpor-Mbalom in Gwer local Government area of the state that the latest of the killings in Benue state which began on a New Year&#8217;s Day is no longer bearable<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"atr5b\" data-offset-key=\"4frj0-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"4frj0-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"4frj0-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"atr5b\" data-offset-key=\"8c8bi-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"8c8bi-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"8c8bi-0-0\">The PDP boss said in a statement signed by his media Adviser Ike Abonyi, that the continued bloodletting in Benue and other parts of the country and the apparent inability of the government to stem it raises a lot of concern on the future of this country.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><code><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/code><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"atr5b\" data-offset-key=\"1gpmn-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"1gpmn-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"1gpmn-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"atr5b\" data-offset-key=\"78qlc-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"78qlc-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"78qlc-0-0\">&#8220;From whichever angle you are witnessing what is happening in this country, one thing is agreeable that this country is sliding dangerously&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"atr5b\" data-offset-key=\"3mood-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"3mood-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"3mood-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"atr5b\" data-offset-key=\"dcpkb-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"dcpkb-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"dcpkb-0-0\">&#8220;Nigerians and the global community have continued to watch as all the tenets of democracy are being eroded and giving way to dictatorial tendencies.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"atr5b\" data-offset-key=\"2vi3g-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"2vi3g-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"2vi3g-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"atr5b\" data-offset-key=\"g191-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"g191-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"g191-0-0\">&#8220;In the last one week we have watched as disturbing indices continue to crop up ahead of the forthcoming general election with APC administration either unconcerned or involved in a tactical endorsement of such act.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"atr5b\" data-offset-key=\"9t930-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"9t930-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"9t930-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"atr5b\" data-offset-key=\"bg2sh-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"bg2sh-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"bg2sh-0-0\">The PDP National Chairman alerted the nation and the international community that the choreographed tension in the land is being designed by the APC administration to charge up the polity to enable them carry out its agenda of abusing democratic process and the rule of law ahead of 2019.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"atr5b\" data-offset-key=\"6uqe1-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"6uqe1-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"6uqe1-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"atr5b\" data-offset-key=\"clfde-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"clfde-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"clfde-0-0\">Prince Secondus admonished the security operatives as professionals to bear in mind always the words of the former US President Theodore Roosevelt that &#8221; patriotism means to stand with the country. It does not mean to stand with the President&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"atr5b\" data-offset-key=\"cfjq-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"cfjq-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"cfjq-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"atr5b\" data-offset-key=\"45mm9-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"45mm9-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"45mm9-0-0\">&#8220;I find it unexplainable that some group of gunmen should hold a state to ransom since January killing and maiming citizens and destroying their houses and the security operatives appear helpless.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"atr5b\" data-offset-key=\"9p0ib-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"9p0ib-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"9p0ib-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"atr5b\" data-offset-key=\"e8ir0-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"e8ir0-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"e8ir0-0-0\">\u201cWhere are the military operatives that carried out Python and Crocodile dances in South East and South South Region respectively lately brandishing their might to less dangerous citizens and who have been unable to tackle the Benue killings.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=16038&amp;ad_type=59&amp;rl=180\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"atr5b\" data-offset-key=\"f5din-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"f5din-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"f5din-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"atr5b\" data-offset-key=\"1rct1-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"1rct1-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"1rct1-0-0\">\u201cHow can anybody expect Benue state for instant to contribute its own share of the $1b security votes when the nation security architecture is not designed to protect their people?<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"atr5b\" data-offset-key=\"9is71-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"9is71-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"9is71-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"atr5b\" data-offset-key=\"12lbu-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"12lbu-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"12lbu-0-0\">&#8220;If we are to give in to the President&#8217;s assertions lately that these killer herdsmen are foreigners trained by late Libyan leader, Muamour Gadhafi, where then lies our pride as a nation that a dead Gadhafi could leave behind such deadly force that a living President and its army have no answer to.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"atr5b\" data-offset-key=\"1v5ps-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"1v5ps-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"1v5ps-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"atr5b\" data-offset-key=\"fi5vm-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"fi5vm-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"fi5vm-0-0\">Finally, Secondus asked the APC administration to accept one huge fact that under their watch the country has collapsed irreparably and there is no evidence of the existence of government in the land.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"atr5b\" data-offset-key=\"d7p53-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"d7p53-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"d7p53-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"atr5b\" data-offset-key=\"4f63t-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"4f63t-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"4f63t-0-0\"> Signed<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"atr5b\" data-offset-key=\"88sd1-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"88sd1-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"88sd1-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"atr5b\" data-offset-key=\"8nu1s-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"8nu1s-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"8nu1s-0-0\">Ike Abonyi<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"atr5b\" data-offset-key=\"6d7u2-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"6d7u2-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"6d7u2-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"atr5b\" data-offset-key=\"ars3i-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"ars3i-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"ars3i-0-0\">SA, Media to the National Chairman.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div 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