{"id":11804,"date":"2018-09-10T21:59:40","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T21:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=11804"},"modified":"2018-09-10T21:59:40","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T21:59:40","slug":"emergency-rule-continue-licking-wounds-of-defeat-mbelt-group-tells-dalung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=11804","title":{"rendered":"Emergency rule: Continue licking wounds of defeat, M\u2019Belt group tells Dalung"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nBarely 48 hours after his demand for the declaration of a state of emergency in Plateau State, Taraba, Benue\u00a0 and Zamfara States, the Minister of of Youths and Sports, Solomon Dalung, has come under fire with the Middle Belt Conscience Guard (MBCG), warning him to desist from such calls \u201cin his own interest.\u201d
\nThe organisation said that by calling for emergency rule in the states under the over alleged \u201ccontinuing\u201d killings, the minister was up to mischief.
\n\u201cDalung cannot deceive anybody anymore. He has continued to lick his wounds from the terrible defeat he suffered in the hands of Governor Simon\u00a0Lalong during the\u00a0 2014\u00a0 Plateau state All Progressives Congress (APC), governorship primaries and\u00a0feels the Governor should never be allowed to govern the state in peace\u201d, MBCG emphasised.
\nThe President of MBCG, Prince Raymond Enero, in a statement on Monday night in Jos, accused Dalung of \u201cpainting a non-existent, gloomy picture of violence and killings in the region\u201d, which he claimed was the motivation of the call for the state of emergency.
\nHe said, \u201cThe minister, no doubt, sounded hollow by these submissions. It marketed him, as a lawyer and high profile government official, but very deficient in the requirements of the law on extent or magnitude of violence and killings to compel the Presidency to declare a state of emergency anywhere.
\n\u201cWhat MBCG can infer from Dalung\u2019s shameful outing and outburst are veiled continuation of his personal political bickering with Plateau State Governor, Simon Lalong. It has pushed him to seek to oust him from office through the backdoor with the instrumentality of state of emergency.
\n\u201cWe are aware of Minister Dalung\u2019s clandestine instigations of youths to take to arms in order to create chaos, anarchy,\u00a0 \u00a0violence and killings in the state by his strong promotion of the \u201cindigene\/settler\u201d syndrome in Plateau.
\n\u201cThe latest pockets of killings on the Plateau are attributable to the designs of\u00a0the likes of Dalung in cohort with other dark minds to discredit and ridicule\u00a0 the APC administration of\u00a0 Gov. Lalong in the state as well as the government of President Muhammadu Buhari on security.
\n\u201cUnfortunately, these antics by Dalung have failed to create the needed confusion, since they have not dimmed Lalong\u2019s eagle eyes, as massively affirmed by the people. They have seen and felt the impacts his policies and actions in terminating the reign of terror he inherited in the state, which became synonymous with the name of Plateau.\u201d
\nEnero said Dalung\u2019s resort to state of emergency appeared to be his last option in\u00a0the attempts to\u00a0clip the wings of governor Lalong, his political foe, adding however that his plots dissolve every time since he has launched an unpopular war on a popular leader.
\nThe MBCG statement reads further: \u201cDalung has been in leadership for years; first, as appointed Caretaker Chairman of Langtang South Local Government Area. Most importantly, from 2004 to 2007,\u00a0he chaired a\u00a0 civil society group known as\u00a0 Plateau Peace Movement for the Sustenance of Democracy.
\n\u201cThese\u00a0 is\u00a0 the period the crises on the Plateau were hatched and nourished to\u00a0 its peak\u00a0 \u00a0for years, before Gov. Lalong\u00a0 appeared on the scene; resolved the thorny issues\u00a0 and enthroned peace and security.
\n\u201cWhile the crises really blossomed with ceaseless violence and killings,\u00a0Dalung never remembered to call for the declaration of state of emergency, as he delightedly does now.\u00a0 This is unadulterated mischief and very feeble methods to adopt in attacking a political opponent.\u00a0 It is senseless and immoral to play politics with the lives of innocent Nigerians.
\n\u201cWe have no option now than to warn Mr. Solomon Dalung to restrict his gaffes to the Ministry of Youth and Sports development,\u00a0for the days he has left\u00a0in that office, where he has buried the\u00a0 prospects of sports and youth development of Nigeria. He should desist from venturing into specialized fields,\u00a0 such as security,\u00a0 which is the strangest of all to him with\u00a0 such\u00a0 unguided and reckless statements.
\n\u201cIt has not escaped our eyes that\u00a0 Dalung\u2019s\u00a0dragging of other states into his call for a state of emergency is to diffuse his real intentions and focus, which is on Gov. Lalong.\u00a0But the people of Plateau cannot buy his gibberish and self-centeredness anymore.
\n\u201cOn the Plateau, the people appreciate Gov. Lalong\u2019s\u00a0conciseness and precision in handling security issues to\u00a0 Dalung\u2019s celebrated cluelessness on security in the state.\u00a0 Dalung\u2019s incompetence and lack of foresightedness has\u00a0 regrettably obligated him to\u00a0 abandon\u00a0 his job\u00a0 of Minister at the federal level and channels his energies\u00a0 to rule Plateau by proxy.
\n\u201cIt has become absolutely necessary for MBCG to alert Nigerians on the\u00a0 in-house sabotage of people like Mr. Solomon Dalung. It is also important to inform President Buhari on the inherent dangers in retaining him as a cabinet minister.
\n\u201cIn the last three years,\u00a0 Dalung,\u00a0has proved himself more as a failure,\u00a0 destroyer, saboteur, ethnic jingoist, mischief maker and has corruption allegations dangling on his\u00a0 head. And he is a bloodthirsty man with an unbridled appetite for violence.
\n\u201cBy every stretched of reasoning, after a careful\u00a0 scrutiny of the actions of Minister of Sports,\u00a0 Dalung, which are unbecoming of a\u00a0 federal cabinet member,\u00a0it is lucid enough to run the conclusion that\u00a0he\u00a0personifies\u00a0one of the many black sheeps\u00a0 in the system.
\n\u201cIt is disturbing to our people that Minister Dalung\u00a0 is using\u00a0one hand to light the fire of brushfires on the Plateau;\u00a0whilst trying to use another hand to quench the same fire.\u00a0 He cannot fool all the people all the times and the demand to uproot him from the leadership plane now is stronger than ever.
\n\u201cIt is curious that\u00a0 Mr. Solomon Dalung\u00a0piteously abdicates\u00a0his official responsibilities in the ministry of Youths and Sports. His pronounced incompetence, tactlessness in handling official assignments\u00a0and alleged corrupt tendencies are frustrating the drive of the Presidency to register strong presence in youth and sports development in the country, as done in other sectors.
\n\u201cDalung is a minister who has a barrage of ignoble outings, such as his demand for \u2018kickback,\u201d as reflected in\u00a0 the\u00a0 2017\u00a0petition\u00a0by Kingdom Human Rights Foundation, on behalf of their client,\u00a0Solbec Ltd was awarded a\u00a0N182 million contract by his ministry\u00a0 of a youth development centre at Ojongbodu, Oyo state.
\n\u201cFurthermore, his failure to account for millions of naira government released to his ministry for disbursement to different sports federations, leading a House of Representatives Committee on Sports probe are some of Dalung\u2019s many shortcomings.
\n\u201cBesides, Dalung\u2019s insistence that the\u00a0 Amaju Pinnick led\u00a0NFF\u00a0should\u00a0infuse members of the Chris Giwa faction into the NFF Executive Committee only advertised his corrupt\u00a0mindset.
\n\u201cThis was after the world football governing body, FIFA and\u00a0the\u00a0Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS), recognised\u00a0 the Amaju Pinnick-led Nigeria Football Federation as properly elected. These\u00a0 are some of the corrupt contemplations\u00a0 aligned with Dalung as Minister, which have caused the nation international embarrassments\u2019 and lowered the rating of the ministry.
\n\u201cHowever, while he displays this helplessness\u2019 in even in understanding the demands of his official responsibilities,\u00a0as minister, he is very keen on uttering suggestions on\u00a0security, which he knows very little.\u201d\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

***says he\u2019s mischievous, after governor Lalong Barely 48 hours after his demand for the declaration of a state of emergency in Plateau State, Taraba, Benue\u00a0 and Zamfara States, the Minister of of Youths and Sports, Solomon Dalung, has come under fire with the Middle Belt Conscience Guard (MBCG), warning him to desist from such calls […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}