Dr Sani Abdullahi Shinkafi, a former governorship candidate in Zamfara and aide to ex-Governor Bello Matawalle, has responded to a recent publication by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, that the Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, abandoned his home state of Zamfara to coordinate the fight against banditry in Sokoto State.
Shinkafi in a statement he signed on behalf of the Patriots for Peace and Social Development, said that several notorious armed bandits in Zamfara, Sokoto, Kebbi , Katsina, and Kaduna States have been neutralised recently in the concerted and coordinated military operation in the region.
“Any governor, former governor, or retired military officer who distracts the ongoing military operation in the North West region is a saboteur who wants to use insecurity as a conduit pipe to divert and siphon security votes.
He noted that Matawalle had visited Sabon Birnin, Goronyo, Rabah, Isa Local Government Area of Sokoto, which shares boundary with Shinkafi Local Government Area in Zamfara State and Niger Republic where these criminal elements easily smuggle arms and ammunition through the porous borders.
Sadly, the same PDP that has been frustrating Matawalle’s effort in providing public safety and order in Zamfara State in particular and the nation in general is the one sarcastically making noise that Matawalle operates from Sokoto instead of Zamfara to flush out bandits in the North West,” he said...
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