President Muhammadu Buhari has been called out by the Pan Yoruba Socio-Political Group, Afenifere, over its position on the directive of the Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, directing Fulani Herdsmen to vacate the state government reserves in the next seven days.
The spokesman of the group, Yinka Odumakin, in a statement titled “Ondo Forests: Fulani Presidency Again,” said Buhari’s regime has shown its non-pretence that it represents only Fulani interests against other tribes in the country.
Recall that the Ondo State Governor on Tuesday also banned underage grazing, night grazing, movement of cattle within the cities and highways.
The Presidency in a statement released through the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, called for restraint on the directives of the Ondo State Governor.
Afenifere said, “The intervention by what we mistakenly call the Federal Government of Nigeria on behalf of marauding Fulanis in Ondo State against the lawful government in that state did not come to Afenifere as a surprise as it is in line with the non-pretence by this regime that it represents only Fulani interests against those of Yoruba, Igbo, Junkun, Ijaw and other tribes in Nigeria.”
“That the Federal Government and its minion, Garba Shehu, could only hear Ondo State when Governor Akeredolu was very loud and clear about herders to vacate forest reserves in the state is symptomatic that this government has a serious problem with heating the rest of us when the issue involves its anointed Fulanis.”