The governor of Zamfara State, Bello Matawalle, has threatened to jail members of the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) and other political parties over unguarded utterances.
Matawalle disclosed this while addressing some members of the APC who defected to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at Gusau, the state capital on Wednesday.
The governor said he would arrest and prosecute any politician who defames or assassinates his character.
He said, “If you know that you cannot defend what you say, you better stop defaming other people’s character because I will order the arrest of whoever is caught doing that and he will go to jail.”
Matawalle stated that some politicians had resorted to the use of hate speeches and defamation of character for political gains.
