Hon. Jonathan Vatsa
Following the continuing massacres in Plateau and Benue states, Hon. Jonathan Vatsa, a Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Niger state, said on Sunday that there is a plot to undermine President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's government before of the 2027 general elections.Hon. Vatsa while alleging that the ongoing bloodbaths in parts of the country are all sponsored and politically motivated violence, alleged that the same formula was used against former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan administration ahead of the 2015 elections and it succeeded.
While speaking with selected Journalists in Minna at his residence on the current situation especially the killings in Benue and Plateau states, the former Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism said what the sponsors of the current mayhem want is to discredit the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Government so as to make him unpopular before Nigerians ahead of the 2927 elections.
Vatsa who was the former publicity secretary of the APC in the state added that “all they want is to set Nigerians against the Tinubu government. In 2014, the same people set both Christians and Muslims against the Jonathan’s administration, using insecurity as a weapon to poison and deceived Nigerians and set them against the government.
“They funded Boko Haram, bombs were being thrown everywhere in the country including Abuja and they organized the kidnapping of Chibok school girls all in an attempt to make Jonathan government very unpopular before Nigerians.
“The same people are back on the drawing board again. The killings in Plateau and Benue are all part of the game plan, it is all about 2027, the government should know this by now.
“They are political merchants, if they are not in any government then that government must not succeed, they will unleashed insecurity and violence against the government”.
Vatsa pointed out that some group of individuals in some parts of the country believed strongly that they are the owners of Nigeria and the country belongs to them, adding that “like I said, if they are not in government that government must not work, they will unleash terror on the government by sponsoring terror and killings.
“The government must do their bidding or else the heaven will fall. They will make the country ungovernable for the government. We saw this play out during Jonathan administration”.