Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, a Fulani socio-cultural organisation, has recommended to President Muhammadu Buhari to place the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, under security watch for his “inciting statement against herders.”
The organisation noted that Atiku’s comments that the killings by herdsmen would continue if Buhari is re-elected was capable of destabilising the country.
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 also posited that Atiku was not worthy of being called a Fulani leader and urged the Lamido of Adamawa to strip him of all his titles
The statement in part, read: “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 ethic irredentism.”
“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.”
The group called on all its members across the country to campaign against the PDP’s Presidential candidate and lambasted former President Olusegun Obasanjo for endorsing him.
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On the recent report by Amnesty International which blamed herdsmen for most of the killings in the North east, Miyetti Allah said it rejected the report, describing it as biased and unpatriotic.
“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.”
