A former governor of Jigawa State, Alhaji Sule Lamido, has said the attacks on and the recent dislike for the Fulani race by some people in Nigeria is as a result of the failure of President Muhammadu Buhari, who is believed to be the leader of the Fulani tribe.
Lamido, who also was a minister of foreign affairs under former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration, lamented that Nigerians had become so blindfolded by hatred for the Fulani race because of President Buhari’s bad governance, forgetting that not all Fulani even voted for or like him.
Lamido who spoke to newsmen in Kano on Thursday, noted that the situation of the country was pathetic. He asked where Nigeria was headed with people killing one another with no serious step being taken to arrest the situation.
Exonerating himself from the process that brought in the president, he said: “Though a Fulani man, I did not vote for Buhari and our parties are completely different, but the Yoruba’s Tinubus, the Igbo’s Ngiges and the South-South’s Amaechis were the ones who firmly stood behind the president to win the election, not even the Fulani.
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“Today, northerners and the Fulani race are not at peace. The insecurity created by the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led government has affected everyone; so to bully them (Fulani) and see them as Nigeria’s problem is like adding salt to injury.”
According to Lamido, there is nowhere a Fulani man is safe because of President Buhari’s failure and that amounts to a dangerous move against an entire race because of a single person, which should not be.
“Nigerians should know that Fulani herders are very peaceful and enterprising people who pasture nature and live by nature. They are not violent and it is not right to castigate all other Fulani because Buhari failed.”
Lamido said it was high time leaders and elite shunned parochial tendencies, adding that unless the Igbo, the Hausa, the Yoruba and other minority tribes understood their differences and believed in one another, no matter how small they were, Nigeria would be a forgotten entity.
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