Following the constant killing of Tiv farmers in Obi, Awe and Doma Local Government Areas of Nasarawa Accompaniment by doubtable herdsmen, a affiliation of Tiv communities in the accompaniment accept decried the contempo utterances of Governor Abdullahi Sule’s Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs, Peter Ahemba, over their plights.
Ahemba, who is additionally a Tiv man and above President of Tiv Development Affiliation in the accompaniment had accused his affinity of exaggerating the aegis bearings in the accompaniment admitting the constant attacks in their corresponding communities, amid added issues.
Speaking during a columnist biefing in Lafia on Friday, baton of the Tiv groups, Boniface Iffer, cautioned Ahemba not to accompany blemish to Tiv bodies in the accompaniment artlessly because he intends advancement his political arrangement with the accompaniment government.
He said, “We are acutely afraid at the accepted trend of contest abnormally involving the accessible utterances of a declared one of us and one time President of the Tiv Development Association, Mr. Peter Ahemba, who was deposed for controversially administering the diplomacy of the association.
“Ordinarily, we would accept adopted to advance a aristocratic silence, but for the abstention of doubt, Ahemba should not be apparent as a adumbrative of the Tiv bodies by boring blue-blooded personalities into accidental calumniating for a pot of borsch aloof to acquire a livelihood.
“Our affair is in his electing to tow a alarming lane, including his boring of the abbey and its clergies into bedraggled backroom on an affair that is already in cloister amid the parties. This is in aberration to abundant calls for abstemiousness and attention by our leaders and well-meaning individuals, including the Accompaniment Aegis Service.
“It was this aforementioned Ahemba who was all over the account accusing Gov. Sule’s administering for axis a bare eye while 56 Tiv locals were actuality dead amid several others in assorted LGAs beyond the state. He acclimated the killing of Tiv bodies in Obi, Awe, Doma, and a host of added communities in Nasarawa Accompaniment to attack for the position he is application today.
“We accept fabricated several consultations with analytical stakeholders and we bound that the atomic we appeal from him is a accounting acknowledgment and, a quick retraction of the calumniating and blackmailing comments he made.
“He should accelerate to apologize to the well-meaning leaders of anticipation in the accompaniment and the Tiv Association for such affectation of uncultured, accidental and boundless agglomeration of lies and added utterances in contempo times to abstain actuality absolutely alone by his affinity in Nasarawa state.”
Meanwhile, reacting to the development, the SSA to the Governor alone the allegations collapsed adjoin him by the assembly and baton of the Tiv communities, while abstinent ability of their actuality in the state.
He said, “I will not accompany issues with them. When I spoke, it was about government not about communities, so for anybody to abate what we are accomplishing as government to a association akin to say the least, is mischievous. I don’t apperceive them, so I am not agitated about whatever they said about me.”