PDP Elders Call for Good Governance In Benue

From Uche Nnorom, Makurdi

Peoples Democratic Party, PDP elders under the aegis of G14 and G9 has urged the APC led government of Governor Hyacinth Alia to focus on delivering good governance based on the rule of law and security of the people.

The group gave the advice against the backdrop of recent developments in the State even as it condemned strongly, the verbal attack on the Senate Minority Leader by the All Progressives Congress, APC elders on Sen Abba Moro, the purported removal of the Chief Judge Justice Maurice Ikpambese and the suspension of 13 members of the House of Assembly some of whom are PDP.

While addressing newsmen in Makurdi, the Chairmen of G14 and G9 Dr. Laha Dever and Chief Elisha Amali wondered why the APC elders chose to criticize the ‘unassailable position of the Senate Minority Leader, Senator Abba Moro, whose statements are firmly rooted in the rule of law and established dernocratic principles.

“We consider the attempt by the APC elders to denigrate Senator Morro as another needless wild goose chase that must be roundly condemned.

“All responsible Benue citizens must agree that the position of Senator Aba Morro, backed by the inter-party members of the Benue caucus of the national assembly is firmly rooted in the rule of law and justice.

On the suspension of some members of the House of Assembly, the group said, “we are concerned that actions of the Benue State House of Assembly are worrisome. This amounts to legislative recklessness.

“We advise a return to status quo. The suspended members of the Benue State House of Assembly, members many of whom are PDP members are representatives of their various constituencies and must be allowed to diligently discharge their duties as the voices and aspirations of the hundreds of thousands of the people they represent. Their suspension remains an anomaly and an aberration within the ambit of democratic conventions.

The group also, noted that the judiciary as a separate arm of government and a corner stone of democracy must not be diluted with politics,.maintaining that any attempt to do so threatens the very fabric of democracy.