The Yoruba Youth Council (YYC) has called on the Zamfara State House of Assembly to impeach Governor Dauda Lawal over his alleged shoddy handling of the deteriorating security situation in their troubled state.
This is even as the youth council cautioned the governor to stop attacking the minister of state for Defence and his predecessor, Alhaji Bello Matawalle.
The ethnic group also lamented the alleged refusal by the governor to work in harmony with the minister in the ongoing sweeping efforts by the military to crush the escalating banditry and the worrisome insecurity ravaging the state.
The YYC in a statement issued by its president, Comrade Eric Oluwole, said, "It is appalling and unacceptable that rather than cooperate with the Ministry of Defence and the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in crushing the worsening banditry in his state, he is the one fuelling the bandits in their bloody attacks which have claimed many lives because his is not a listening Governor."
Oluwole said, "Regrettably still, the Yoruba Youths Council recently monitored Governor Lawal's interview on a TV station calling for the resignation of Alhaji Bello Matawalle, the Minister of State for Defence.
"We boldly say that viewing the current situation in Zamfara, Mr Governor could not have accused his predecessor of not doing enough. This is because Alhaji Bello Matawalle has tried his best to work with him, but Governor Dauda Lawal has refused his intervention.
"We expect that the Governor of a state being ravaged by banditry everywhere is not supposed to jeopardise any effort from anywhere to crush banditry and restore normalcy in the beleaguered state.
"Yoruba youths have been monitoring Zamfara issues over time, and we cannot allow Governor Dauda Lawal to continue molesting Alhaji Bello Matawalle as one of the best Ministers in the administration of Tinubu Government.
"Bello Matawalle has been a man working hard for the good development of Zamfara state."
Oluwole noted the successes recently recorded by the nation's gallant armed forces in the ongoing onslaught against banditry in the North, including the neutralisation of the notorious banditry kingpin Halilu Sububu and the arrest of another gun-running banditry kingpin, Bashir Hadejia.
