Concerning the statements uttered by Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, calling Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed “a terrorist governor”, and saying anyone that cannot follow the law in Benue State should go to Bauchi State and pick AK-47, the Deputy Speaker of Bauchi State House of Assembly(BAHA), Hon. Danlami Ahmed Kawule, who is also representing Zungur/ Galambi Constituency has described both statements ‘very dehumanising’ and ‘abusive’.

The Deputy speaker, on Tuesday during an interview with pressmen in Bauchi, said the people and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of the state are not pleased with such derogatory statements coming  from the mouth of a leader who happens to be a mouth piece of the people and who everybody looks forward to as a role model.

Kawule, however, demanded that Governor Samuel Ortom should apologise to the People of Bauchi state and the PDP.

He lamented over the uncalled-for relationship between the two PDP governors who are supposed to be working together towards the unity of the nation.

He stressed that leaders in the country should refrain from making utterances that have the capacity to heat up the polity, pointing out that no nation can progress in a state of chaos.

“As far as I am concerned, Governor Ortom needs to apologise to the people of Bauchi State for tagging Governor Mohammed as a terrorist because Bauchi people are not terrorists neither is the governor. Such statement should not come out from the mouth of a leader who happens to be a mouth piece of the people who everybody look forward to as a role model.

“For him to say that if you cannot follow the law in Benue State, go to Bauchi State and pick AK-47 is very dehumanising. What does Governor Ortom mean by such a statement? That statement is an abusive word. We are not happy over this development because Bauchi State is the most secured place in the country where other neighbouring states who are bedevilled by insecurity come to settle,” he stated.

He added that Mohammed has been working hard to foster peaceful coexistence in the country and would not be part of any plot to disintegrate it.

Kawule explained that when the governor said that Fulani herders should defend themselves, the statement was not meant to create tension in the country, but to proffer solutions to the insecurity problems in the country.

He also said that Fulani herders have the right to defend themselves, stressing that tagging them as terrorists was unfair and not in the interest peaceful coexistence.