PDP Youth Leader Who Called Buhari, SGF ‘Useless’ Remanded In Prison

A Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Youth leader, Ikama Kato, has been incarcerated for allegedly insulting President Muhammadu Buhari and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha on social media.

Justice Dimas Gwama of the Magistrates’ Court IV in Yola ordered that Kato be remanded in prison for insulting Buhari and SGF over deepening security crisis in the Northeast state.

Kato, a youth leader of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Hong, allegedly took to his Facebook page to condemn the rising insecurity in the area following recent attacks by armed men suspected to be Boko Haram members.

In a viral video, the youth leader, who hails from the same local council as the SGF berated the latter and Buhari for failing to secure the lives of residents.

He labelled the SGF “a disappointment and a failure” just as he described the two leaders as “useless men” in power.

Subsequently, the Hong chapter of the PDP suspended Kato for using offensive and demeaning language, adding that the party took exception to his castigation of the SGF, an influential figure from the council.

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Shortly after his suspension by the PDP, a contrite Kato made another video wherein he apologised to those he lampooned in the first video.

However, a group, Adamawa Concerned Citizens, led by Hussain Gambo, a supporter of the SGF, dragged Kato before the magistrates’ court, Punch reported

The group’s leadership said it took the decision to serve as a deterrent to those using social media to slander responsible Nigerians.

Kato was arraigned before the Chief Magistrate Court IV in Yola.

The Chief Magistrate, Gwama, who took the plea of the accused, ordered him to be remanded in prison till August 3

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