Atiku in trouble with Miyetti Allah

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, is definitely not In the good books of the leadership of herdsmen in Nigeria, Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore.

The group has asked Nigerians to reject the presidential Atiku, even as it has vowed to campaign massively against his presidential ambition.

The Fulani socio-cultural association said Nigerians should not only condemn Atiku for his alleged hate for Fulani “pastoralists and naked dance in the market place, but to totally reject him as presidential candidate”.

The group also asked its members across the country and other Fulani groups “to embark on massive campaign against the presidential aspiration of Atiku Abubakar, because he does not mean well for the pastoralists and the country”.

Miyetti Allah stated this on Thursday in Abuja at a press conference at the end of an emergency meeting, where it also claimed that the 2018 report of Amnesty International Nigeria on the clash between farmers and herders was “false and unsubstantiated”.

Speaking at the event, Abdullahi Bello Bodejo, national president of the group said after thorough examination of the report, it discovered that a substantial part of the Amnesty report “is not only false, but written to satisfy their paymasters and further stoke the conflicts”.

He added that the “hired Amnesty International researchers did not deem it fit to interview the leadership of the herders and families of herders affected by the conflicts in the areas they claimed to have visited”.

According to him, the association had collaborated with security agencies to find solutions to the farmers/herders conflict, and called on government to closely monitor the activities of the organisation, particularly their source of funding.

Faulting the content of the Amnesty report, Bodejo argued that the fact that “it 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”.

On Atiku, Bodejo condemned him for feasting and capitalising on the report with the view to garnering political capital from the farmers/herders conflict.

“We are calling on His Royal Majesty, the Lamido of Adamawa, to strip Atiku Abubakar of his title as Waziri Adamawa for his open hatred for Fulani pastoralists, and surrounding himself with ethnic and merchants that have been profiling the Fulani race and calling for their genocide.

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“We are consequently directing all our members nationwide and other Fulani groups to embark on massive campaign against the presidential aspiration of Atiku Abubakar, because he does not mean well for the pastoralists and the country,” he said.

He further appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to instruct security agencies to monitor Atiku, “considering the volatile and inciting statement he made against herders”.

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