Borno ANPP slams youth volunteers over burning of chairman’s house

[Mirror]

The Borno State chapter of the All Nigeria People's Party (ANPP) yesterday condemned the burning of its state's chairman's house by the youth vigilance group. Last Monday the youth vigilante hunting for Boko Haram in Maiduguri attacked the New GRA, Maiduguri home of Mala Othman attempting to arrest him, but ended up burning but he was rescued by security operatives.

In a press statement issued after a crucial meeting, and signed by the ANPP secretary in the state, Alhaji Bakura Shettima, the party said it would have ignore the incident if it had not been targeted to smear the integrity of its chairman, Alhaji Mala Othman.

According to Shettima, He said: 'Our party chairman, Othman, is an accomplished politician who has the interest of the people and the development of the state at heart. Accusing him of such behaviour is witchhunting of which the people of Borno State are never known for. The Borno ANPP scribe argued that the attempt to implicate the ANPP chairman in the activities of the outlawed Boko Haram sect was a total contradiction of the facts on ground.

Shettima continued, "In order to put the records straight, we want to establish the fact that it is on record that 99 percent of politicians killed since the Boko Haram insurgency began in the state are members of the ANPP, the ruling party in Borno State.

The party has put Borno on the path of unprecedented development under the leadership of our State Chairman, Alhaji Mala Othman, who is a leader with unquestionable character." The party appealed Youth Volunteers to be careful not to take laws into their hands and should beware of politicians who might use them against their opponents in order to score cheap political points. Shettima also called for full investigation into the last Monday assault on the ANPP chieftain.

National Mirror