Plateau State Governor, Barr. Caleb Manasseh Mutfwang has blamed the elite class for the creating the security challenges the country is currently going through.
Gov. Mutfwang who made the assertion on Sunday at a stakeholder meeting in Jos, the state capital, accused the country’s elite of contributing to deepening divisions and must help to reverse the trend.
“My theory is that, more than anybody else, the challenges of insecurity in Nigeria are an elite-created problem,” Mutfwang said.
”When the elite conspire to lead the people in the wrong direction, we will continue to have this perennial crisis.
“Many a time, you’ll find that even when the poisoning of the mind begins in the community, when the elite take leadership and say it must stop, they’ll address it adequately and it will stop.
“But when the elite fan the embers of hate, they are the people that do their analysis, that begin to spew knowledge, information, and poison the minds of ordinary people—then it will be sustained.”
Mutfwang also urged Nigeria’s elite to promote unity and peaceful coexistence in the country.
He vowed that his administration would dismantle “artificial barriers of faith and ethnicity,” to ensure development in Plateau State.
“As I stand before you today, I want to reiterate that I came into government with a firm resolve to restore lasting peace to Plateau,” he pledged.
“That is why I have deliberately sought to bridge the divides we’ve built across religion and ethnicity,” the governor stated.
