The Miyetti-Allah Kautal Hore association has declared that the Fulani ethnic stock is ready to break away from Nigeria if the country comes to that eventual decision.
The National Secretary of the association, Alhassan Saleh, made the declaration on Friday, while reacting to the decision of the 17 Southern governors to ban open grazing after they held a meeting on Tuesday in Asaba, Delta State.
According to Saleh, “If the South feels that because they have oil, they can show this open hatred to the Fulani, I bet you, they are late.
“You cannot expel an ethnic group that has a population of 17 million people from an entity. So, if the agitators want to divide the country today, or this minute, we will help. We are ready to go. We are more prepared than any other tribe.
“Nowhere is this type of ban done; you can only control it. But the Fulani, by nature, move about with their animals. They are not only in Nigeria, but they are also all over Africa.”, he further stated.
Saleh had, in an interview published at the weekend, stated that the issue of Fulani herders was resolved by governors 25 years ago, but that no government had deemed it fit to implement the decisions, saying, “We are just moving forward and backward.”
According to him, herders are not the problem facing the country but the ethnic profiling of the Fulani in the country, particularly in the South, is mind-boggling.
“We understand that 2023 is also part of the game plan. They want to get power on a platter of gold; nobody will give them power like that. They must seek our support. People who want power don’t behave in this manner”, the Miyetti-Allah scribe stated.
However, in a swift reaction, the pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, said the Fulani were free to go if they were ready, but that the Yoruba remained insistent that the country must be restructured.
