Ondo: Buhari regime protecting only Fulani interests – Afenifere

Pan Yoruba Socio-Political Group, Afenifere has called out the presidency over its position on the directive of the Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, directing Fulani Herdsmen to vacate the state government reserves.

In a statement titled “Ondo Forests: Fulani Presidency Again”, the spokesman of the group Yinka Odumakin, stated that President Buhari’s regime has shown without pretence that it represents only Fulani interests against other tribes in the country.

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.”

The group wondered what the President Buhari-led government has put in place to protect the lives of people in the South-West as it called on Yoruba people to support the Ondo State Governor in these trying times for him to do all within the law to rid Ondo forests of criminals.

It also urged other governors in the South-West to emulate Akeredolu and “free our land from the Fulani who have surrounded us with the shield of the Federal Government”