Plateau Killings: Uproot Buhari in 2019 before we all die – Afenifere warns Nigerians
Afenifere
said the massacre was enough reason to make Nigerians vote out President
Muhammadu Buhari in 2019.
Rising from
its Monthly meeting in Akure, the Ondo State capital, on Tuesday, Afenifere
called for an end the “wanton killings.”
The
communique issued by Afenifere’s spokesperson, Yinka Odumakin reads, “Nigerians
must now gird their loins and see the democratic uprooting of this
administration as a task that must be done in 2019 so as to save the country
from utter destruction.
“There is no
land where the blood of the innocent is being shed daily like Nigeria that can
make progress in any area of human endeavor. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!.
“The meeting
was devastated by the genocide that took place in Plateau State on Sunday in
which over 200 deaths occurred by eyewitnesses accounts deaths but the police
admitted 100.
“These
wanton killings and official irresponsibility portray Nigeria as a barbaric
entity and we Yoruba People are pained living in the same space with the
bestial elements who kill innocent people in a cruel manner.
“The images
of little children killed mercilessly with open skulls make anyone with human
blood flowing in his or her veins to shrink.
“We are
further distressed that the response of President Buhari to the murder of
hundreds of our citizens did not attract a word of sympathy or regret.
“It is very
infuriating that the President’s response and that of Miyetti Allah appeared to
have been authored from the same laptop.
“The
Chairman of North Central zone of Miyetti Allah, Danladi Ciroma said the
attacks were a retaliation for the loss of three hundred cows. He said “These
attacks are retaliatory ….Those who carried out the attacks must be on revenge
mission …Fulani herdsmen have lost over 300 cows in the last few weeks…..Since
these cows were not found, no one should expect peace in the areas.
”President
Buhari who is also the Grand Patron of Miyetti Allah who described the Fulani
herdsmen terror as “herdsmen/farmers” clashes “(a case of two fighting but dead
bodies only on one side) also repeated the missing cows and even added another
charge Miyetti Allah did not remember.
“According to
information available to the Presidency about one hundred cattle had been
rustled by a community in Plateau State, AND SOME HERDSMEN WERE KILLED IN THE
PROCESS.The state governor,Simon Lalong had invited the aggrieved groups and
pleaded against further action …Less than forty-eight hours later violence
broke out (an euphemism for the word “retaliation” used by Miyetti Allah Chief.
“The
President used the word “thugs” thrice to describe protesting residents while
admitting that human life was becoming “increasingly cheap ” under his watch
without saying what he is doing to make it worthy or bring the herdsmen who
have admitted killing people to book. He also repeated the blame game of
“desperate people ” causing instability and chaos” in furtherance of the vain
attempt by the administration to divert attention from Fulani herdsmen
responsible for the serial murders.
“Three
months ago, we did say that the President is afflicted by conflict of interests
as Grand Patron of Miyetti Allah and the President of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria.
“It is the
affliction that has seen him now functioning as a Miiyetti Allah godfather at a
time he should be presidential.
“We asked
him and we are calling on him to make a choice between the two.
“It is
pointless at this stage making any demand on this incorrigible administration.
“We ask our
people to have special prayers for the souls of all those killed and for God to
have mercy on Nigeria in all our mosques on Friday 29th June in our churches on
Sunday 1st of July, and for Him to see us through the last few months of this
administration.”
Comments