A former governor of Abia State, Senator Orji Kalu, has said that the killings and abductions in Nigeria are politically motivated.

Kalu said the bandits formenting violent attacks in different parts of the country were sponsored by politicians to destabilise the administration of President Bola Tinubu.

According to him, the politicians responsible want Tinubu to fail just as they did to former President Goodluck Jonathan.

He, however, did not disclose the names of the alleged sponsors.

“What we are seeing is always a routine, something that goes with the elections, and when you have an election, people will try to pressure the government in power for all kinds of things to start happening.

“And you can remember when President Jonathan was here, a similar thing happened,” he said on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics.

“They put a lot of pressure on the President.

“And the terrorists and the bandits are orchestrated by some members of the international community and local people who really want to destabilise the government,” he added.