President Muhammadu Buhari; Miyetti Allah Kautal National President, Abdullahi Bodejo and Atiku Abubakar.
The Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to place Atiku Abubakar on security watch.
Fulani socio-cultural organisation, Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, has
asked President Muhammadu Buhari to place the presidential candidate of
the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, under security watch ahead
of next month’s elections, Punch Metro reports.
In a communiqué issued at the end of an emergency meeting and
signed by Miyetti Allah Kautal National President, Abdullahi Bodejo; and
the National Secretary, Saleh Alhassan, the group said the former
Vice-President was “capable of destabilising the country.”
The group lambasted Atiku for saying that killings by herdsmen would continue if Buhari is re-elected.
The statement read in part, “We appeal to President Muhammad
Buhari to instruct the security agencies to monitor Atiku Abubakar,
considering his volatile and inciting statement he made against the
herders.
“His statement as a presidential candidate is capable of
destabilising the country, especially considering that he is currently
surrounded by anarchist and hate speech merchants feeding on the
lucrative industry of fake news and ethnic irredentism.”
Although the group did not endorse Buhari outright, it called on
all its members across the country to launch a massive campaign against
the PDP candidate.
Miyetti Allah also slammed former President Olusegun Obasanjo for endorsing Atiku.
It said Atiku was not worthy of being called a Fulani leader and called on the Lamido of Adamawa to strip him of all his titles.
The statement added, “We are calling on the Lamido of Adamawa
to strip Atiku Abubakar of his title as Wazirin Adamawa for his open
hatred for the Fulani pastoralist and surrounding himself with ethnic
irredentist and hate speech merchants that have been profiling the
Fulani race and calling for their genocide.
“The title of Waziri in the Adamawa Emirate should be reserved
for only Fulani sons with a track record of helping and protecting the
Fulani race and not a shadowy character with convoluted identity.”
Miyetti Allah also rejected the report issued by Amnesty
International recently wherein it blamed herdsmen for the killing of
many innocent Nigerians.
It said a substantial part of the report was not only false and
unsubstantiated but also written to satisfy their “paymasters” and
further intensify the conflict.
The statement added, “Amnesty International’s hired researchers
did not deem it fit to interview the leadership of the herders and
families of the herders affected by the conflicts in the areas they
claimed to have visited. Consequently, we condemn such selective, highly
biased and unpatriotic acts.
“The hasty conclusion of the report, which was quick to dismiss
the efforts of the security agencies in ending the conflicts, suggested
clearly that Amnesty International activities in Nigeria have been
hijacked by mercenaries and mercantile characters that are sponsored by
forces that want to balkanise the Nigerian State.”
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