Senator Anietie Okon has opined that elections may not hold in 2019
due to the persistent killings across the country.
Okon said this while lamenting the bias handling of the crisis between
farmers and herdsmen in Plateau and Benue States, a situation which
has led to the spread of the killings in the country.
Addressing journalists in Uyo, the state capital, Okon also called for
the resignation of President Muhammadu Buhari over his alleged failure
to ensure the security of lives and property in the country.
He said, "The President should resign because he has failed in his
primary responsibility which is ensuring security of the citizens. It
is not possible for him to continue to give all manner of excuses. Now
he has asked us to resort to prayers.
"It is clear that there is an inherent lack of capacity in the All
Progressives Congress, APC leadership. The President does not clearly
understand his security responsibility to every Nigerian citizen.
"The elections may not hold. I say this going by what we have seen,
the bloodletting in the country and the feeble and unimaginative
response to it, and the obvious partiality and tendency exhibited by
those who are supposed to contain and exterminate this bloodletting.
"It is very clear that the thing is worsening from day to day. Do you
think you can have an election in Plateau tomorrow or in Benue? And
the killing is spreading. It is part of their design and I challenge
them to it."
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