Video: Katsina State Governor Shema Urges Supporters to Kill and Crush Political Opponents

<div style="text-align: justify;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiDyzsJUgAFKvwud33S1NHlLB6ptrrMU8qOKyWoMs8YTJoRgeWremFM0KgduQjNP2eGGIIidcAGs2f-ChyphenhyphenDjx98eUpGdYzGvMTBmDKOicE7jM40P0ZNH0SC1F60Eo9nOpCDFjdYmn13CM/s1600/Shema-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiDyzsJUgAFKvwud33S1NHlLB6ptrrMU8qOKyWoMs8YTJoRgeWremFM0KgduQjNP2eGGIIidcAGs2f-ChyphenhyphenDjx98eUpGdYzGvMTBmDKOicE7jM40P0ZNH0SC1F60Eo9nOpCDFjdYmn13CM/s1600/Shema-2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <b><br /></b> <b>Report by: Mohammed Lere</b><br /> <br /> A video depicting the Katsina Governor, Ibrahim Shema, prodding his party members to physically assault and possibly “kill” opposition politicians in the state, has gone viral on the internet.<br /> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The amateur video was first posted on the internet on November 12.<br /> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> It shows the governor, dressed in white agbada and brown sandals, standing on a red carpet, and addressing a crowd in what seemed like a political rally. He spoke in Hausa.<br /> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Mr. Shema likened opposition politicians to “cockroaches” before asking the crowd what to do if they found the nocturnal insect in their apartments.<br /> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The crowd chorused “Kill them!”<br /> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “Crush them!” the governor responded, agreeing with the crowd.<br /> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Similar calls have triggered violence in other countries including the East African country, Rwanda, where the majority Hutus’ description of the minority Tutsis as “cockroaches”, helped fired a 100-day murderous campaign that saw over 800,000 Tutsis killed.<br /> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Mr. Shema is a second term governor and a member of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.<br /> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In 2011, he fought hard to secure a second term after the state’s main opposition then, the defunct Congress for Political Change, CPC, expanded rapidly and gained influence in the northwest state. CPC is now part of the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC.<br /> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Katsina State is also the home state of Muhammadu Buhari, a leader of the opposition APC and a contender for the APC presidential ticket for the 2015 election.<br /> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Katsina has a relatively minimal history of violence, although the state has been noted by election observers for a significant incidence of underage voting in previous elections.<br /> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The video which has drawn stringent backlash online ended with the governor emphatically asking his fans to reprise any attack from the opposition.<br /> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “Before now people from the opposition will humiliate us in the PDP and we will say don’t do anything about it. But now I am telling you to fight back and ‘quote me’,” the governor emphasized.<br /> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Mr. Shema could not be reached for comments on the story. His aide, Sani Malumfashi, a Special Adviser on media, said he was away and is only expected back on ‎Saturday.<br /> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="266" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1k2sn5Eztr0?feature=player_embedded" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="320"></iframe></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>A transcript of the video is posted below</b><br /> <b><br /></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “PDP has touched the lives of every citizen of Katsina state, either as an individual or your family in general.<br /> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “If your child is sick you must take him to the hospital to receive treatment for free.<br /> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “You must use the well-built road that PDP constructed to go to your house.<br /> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “Your children have never paid a single dime for his education in this state since I became the governor in 2007 and that includes WAEC and NECO.<br /> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “We should thank Allah for this.<br /> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “If you look around, some states that I will not mention here, they keep making the headlines that PDP could not do this or that, but they should know Katsina state is PDP and we have done it.<br /> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “You should not be bothered with ‘cockroaches of politics.’<br /> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “Cockroaches are only found in the toilet even at homes.<br /> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “If you see a cockroach in your house what do you do?<br /> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Crowd responds:  “You kill it!”<br /> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Gov. Shema agrees: “Crush them!<br /> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “Anyone who does anything against you we’ll retaliate, am telling you now.<br /> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “Before now people from the opposition will humiliate us in the PDP and we will say don’t do anything about it but now I am telling you to fight back and ‘quote me’”.<br /> <br /> <br /> <b>Credit: <a href="http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/171411-katsina-governor-shema-caught-video-urging-supporters-crush-kill-political-opponents.html">Premium Times</a></b></div>

Video: Katsina State Governor Shema Urges Supporters to Kill and Crush Political Opponents

Report by: Mohammed Lere A video depicting the Katsina Governor, Ibrahim Shema, prodding his party members to physically assault and possibly “kill” opposition politicians in the state, has gone vira…

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