Ignore NEF calls to leave Southern Nigeria, Buhari tells Fulani herdsmen

By John Owen Nwachukwu



President Muhammadu Buhari has sent a message to Fulani herdsmen urging them to ignore the recent call by the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) asking them to leave the Southern part of Nigeria.

This was contained in a statement signed and made available to DAILY POST on Wednesday by Garba Shehu, his Senior Special Adviser on Media and Publicity.

Buhari questioned the intentions of the NEF and the other so-called leaders in delving into issues with unsolicited, ill-intentioned advice.

The statement added, “All citizens of Nigeria are free to move and live within any part of the country they please, whether or not they are originally from there.

“In line with our country’s constitution, the government of Nigeria and the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari will protect citizens of Nigeria wherever they find themselves.

“No one has the right to ask anyone or group to depart from any part of the country, whether north, south, east or west,” the President said.

“They have no one’s authority to make such pronouncements.

“The polarising role of the Northern Elders Forum and all those other groups dabbling into issues of security to score cheap political points has for long been a sore point in Nigeria’s body polity.


“They should not be allowed to mislead anyone, least of all the Fulani herders.

“The Buhari administration is fully devoted to finding a lasting solution to the herder-farmer clashes in different parts of Nigeria- one that would be acceptable to all the parties involved.”

The President, therefore, called on all Nigerians to help keep the peace in the country.

https://dailypost.ng/2019/07/17/northern-elders-directive-president-buhari-sends-message-fulani-herdsmen/

Very good one from the president.

Seriously I now understand the real meaning of "Next Level ".... my YORUBA brothers Muslim una eyes ko soon clear

Next level revolution loading.....

Op why did you exclude the bolded

“In line with our country’s constitution, the government of Nigeria and the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari will protect citizens HERDSMEN of Nigeria wherever they find themselves"

Hahahaha when we say Buhari is sponsor of these people we know what we are saying ..even the NEF is tired of what's going on ..

So an Igbo man can comfortably stay in Zamfara and Borno in his storey building with this your statement ahbi?

the guys above, please what network are you using

Abeg those terrorists Fulani's can leave, they are spoiling the good Hausa people name.

Fulani should leave our land abeg

So that they can continue to wreak havoc? Why not ask these brutes to ranch their cattle and provide feeds for them as it's the practice in civilized settings? Cattle business is private business.

After all, the president once talked about importing grass from Brazil for cattle.

phelonrays:
Seriously I now understand the real meaning of "Next Level ".... my YORUBA brothers Muslim una eyes ko soon clear

of course ,the yorubas are waiting for that to happen.maybe, the fulani are going to repeat the same atrocities that they did to you people way back.why pushing the west? .And was it wise or sensible to point an accusatory finger in one direction?.And if yes,did this have to be so?

Bt he can not send message to them to stop killing farmers. i blame the housas who gave up their land to this blood sucker.
i hope the entire south is ready for the upcoming event. no be to shout o, no be to make noise, THE HOUR HAS COME.

Buhari will finally undo One Nigeria

Yeah right! Does the constitution also guarantee a farmer the right to harvest his farm produce peacefully without northern cows and their herders cutting short their lives?
WE NEED ANSWERS.

Na wao

You won't involve the DSS to question them.

It is well.

dre11:
Ignore NEF calls to leave Southern Nigeria, Buhari tells Fulani herdsmen





https://dailypost.ng/2019/07/17/northern-elders-directive-president-buhari-sends-message-fulani-herdsmen/

sitting on kegs of gun powder

Better

These kids dnt understand the consequence of asking a tribe to leave a region.

If they start the same madness in the North a lot of people will die.

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Who is shaking this table?

Donald95:
Igbo people in North should be careful. NEF made that declaration so that their people will come back because they have plan of hiding inside terrorists and attack Ndị Igbo. Then Ndị Igbo won't be able to reply properly because majority of Northerners must have gone back to North.

is everything all about the igbos... Is the south only the igbos

By south.... Buhari means Yoruba Muslim lands


Cc All Fulani herdsmen from Nigeria.. Libya.. Mali.. Niger Republic etc

So Buhari can be this swift in assuring his people?

Nigeria is still suffering from the effects of evil decisions made by egocentric IGBO'S. But they want to transfer the blames on Fulani tribe. The first political assassination of Northern Nigeria leaders destroyed all.

On a January 15, 1966, a group of young military officers staged a coup, killing off political leaders.

The military officers were all from the South of the country.

All but one of the leaders of the coup were Igbo:

Maj. Kaduna Nzeogwu (Igbo),
Maj. Emmanuel Ifeajuna (Igbo)
Maj. Timothy Onwuatuegwu (Igbo),
Maj. Chris Anuforo (Igbo),
Maj. Don Okafor (Igbo),
Maj. Adewale Ademoyega (Yoruba),
Maj. Humphrey Chukwuka (Igbo),
Capt. Emmanuel Nwobosi (Igbo),
Capt. Ben Gbulie (Igbo)
Capt. Ogbu Oji (Igbo)
These self-styled revolutionaries put out that they were out to root out corrupt politicians. Somehow their idea of the corrupt seemed to had an ethnic colouration and Christianization of Nigeria agenda.

All the major victims of the coup were mainly of the Northern Region or their Southern allies. The Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa , of Northern extraction and the Premier of the Northern Region Ahmadu Bello, were killed. Ladoke Akintola, the Premier of the Western Region, an ally of the Ahmadu Bello, was killed. Somehow the Premier of the Eastern Region and the President of the country, Nnamdi Azikiwe, both Igbo were spared.

The casualties also included the most senior military officer from the north, Brig. Mailamari, senior officers from the West but curiously none from the Eastern Igbo region.

The casualities list -

Brig. Samuel Ademulegun, (West)
Brig. Zakariya Maimalari, (North);
Col. Ralph Shodeinde, (West);
Col. Kur Mohammed (North);
Lt. Col. Abogo Largema,(North);
Lt. Col. James Pam,(North);
Lt. Col. Arthur Unegbe, (East); - the only Igbo, the Quartermaster of the Army who refuse to co-operate.
Sergeant Daramola Oyegoke,(West);
PC Yohana Garkawa,(North)
Lance Corporal Musa Nimzo, (North)
(North); PC Akpan Anduka (East).
The coup has therefore since been dubbed ‘the Igbo coup’.

The coup failed but the head of the most senior military officer became Head of State. He was General Aguiyi Ironsi. He was Igbo. Much was expected of him especially to reassure the North and make moves that will cast away fears of Southern (Igbo?) domination.

However Karma caught up with them, during the Civil war and the marginalization they are experiencing now is the direct antitheses of seizing power from North by killing its leaders. Igbo's will never be president in Nigeria. Ruga or no Ruga. A Fulani is your president.
Igbo's always play the victims card, forgetting that History can never be changed. They are happy Fulani are been told to leave their lands, backs North........what is good for the goose is good for the gander , Igbo's will have to leave the North once the Fulani start migrating back to North.

THIRD PLACE WINNER WILL CELEBRATE THEI

Herdsmenson:
Abeg those terrorists Fulani's can leave, they are spoiling the good Hausa people name.

Fulani should leave our land abeg

I wonder how Hausa are able to cope with them and their trouble making nature except if they have accepted fate probably that is the case, hausas are the best to live with no issue at all

Good question

Faponmile:
Yeah right! Does the constitution also guarantee a farmer the right to harvest his farm produce peacefully without northern cows and their herders cutting short their lives?
WE NEED ANSWERS.