The Fulani socio-cultural group Miyetti Allah has accused Ondo State Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of creating an ethnic militia group (Amotekun) that is being used to attack innocent herders.
In a statement released in Abuja on Thursday, the National Secretary of the association, Saleh Alhasan urged calm among the people, assuring them that efforts were on to proffer a permanent solution to their challenges.
He asked state governments to quit enacting laws that widen the cracks in the nation’s unity.
He, however, lauded Bauchi State governor, Bala Mohammed, for constantly speaking for the Fulani pastoralists who, he said, were being persecuted across many states through the enactment of obnoxious laws against their means of livelihood, and issuance of illegal eviction notices from their places of abode .
He said: “Bauchi governor has gradually emerged as the only lone voice in the North to openly defend the Fulani pastoralists. His intervention in the ongoing raging herders/farmers conflicts was to simply situate the conflicts within the proper context devoid of politicization, with the hope of finding a sustainable solution.
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“He trod where angels were scared to tread in the past with reference to the role the governor, as a senator in 2010, played when the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, was incapacitated, and the making of then Vice President, Goodluck Jonathan, the Acting President.
“He took what politicians consider as political risk when he held divergent views where others failed or chickened out. So, his current position on the herders/farmers conversation is not strange or out of context.”
“This was because he believed in the unity and peaceful co-existence of Nigeria as one indivisible entity where every citizen has equal right and privileges. Despite the loud hues and cries from the dissenting voices across the country and threats from the then cabal that held sway at the villa, he did not shake. He did it out of conviction and to douse the rising tension in the country then.
“He was never scared nor intimidated of speaking the truth. Governor Mohammed should be applauded for providing purposeful leadership particularly to the north at this trying moment in our nation’s history.
“Those attempting to silence him are only undertaking an exercise in futility as the majority of the northern masses particularly the pastoralists that have seen a leader and saviour at this critical time are solidly behind him.”
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