A former minority leader and House of representatives member, Farouk Adamu Aliyu (APC) has stated that the Fulani People are now an ‘endangered species’ in Nigeria.
Aliyu made this comment during a live interview on Channels TV on Sunday night. According to him the Fulanis have a right to free movement to anywhere in the country as they are Nigerians also. He was reacting to a statement from Dike Chukwumerije on the open grazing ban put in place by Southern Governors.
“We are in a country where the Fulanis, sadly, are being targeted as endangered species. Is any Nigerian saying that the Fulanis have no right whatsoever to go with their cows from Jigawa to Bayelsa? No! ”
“All the president was saying is that these routes are nobody’s routes, they are government routes and they should be allowed”.
“We are Nigerians”.
He continued: “The constitution of this country guarantees freedom of movement. The constitution of this country guarantees you stay anywhere you want to stay and that’s why i said i don’t want to look at from the view of the Fulani man or the igbo man or the Yoruba man. We are what we are by birth”.
He also commented on the clamour for an Igbo presidency saying that it’s possible for the APC to field an Igbo candidate president but it won’t be achieved through ‘Blackmail’ and ‘violence’. He advised the Igbos to negotiate and dialogue.
Hmmmmmm many northern leaders are always economical with the truth, if it were the southerners, we would have condemn the activities of the Fulani herders even if they are our clans but the northerners will be supporting them either systematic way or openly, a typical example is the issue of Bokoharam, before it gets out of hand when a prominent northern elders were saying killing Bokoharam members is killing the northerners. Now, they have started again by supporting the atrocities of the so called Fulanis herders killing other indigenous Nigerians. Now they are trying to change the narratives by saying Fulanis are becoming endangered species an in actual fact “Fulanis have become dangerous in Nigeria” other indigenous Nigerians are now becoming endangered species in Nigeria ” if we can’t leave together pls, lets go our separate ways, we are never one from the beginning and we can never be one.
….any way! In any society or tribe there are undisireable Element, most of the robberies committed in northern Nigeria from 80s to date are committed by IGBOs and they are
still leaving happily in our our society EG KANO STATE they acquired landed properties , running their business without any obstruction… Why notherers are suffering all this??