By; BAYO AKAMO, Ibadan
The Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) New Era, on Monday declared that the rampaging Fulani herdsmen have constituted themselves as a major threat to national security which the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal government must tame now.
National Publicity of the OPC New Comrade Adesina Akinpelu who raised the alarm in Ibadan while speaking with newsmen faulted the alleged failure of President Muhammadu Buhari to act appropriately to stop the killings by Fulani herdsmen across Nigeria.
Comrade Akinpelu lamented that it was unfortunate that the herdsmen have become an endangered spicie especially with the latest killings in Benue state.
According to Comrade Akinpelu, it was the allegef continued failure of President Buhari to arrest and prosecute the killer Fulani herdsmen that has been embolden the herdsmen and which portends President Buhari as ” a sectional leader who is not qualified to become Nigeria’s president.”
The OPC New Era leader advised President Buhari “to emulate former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who during his tenure as number one citizen of the country proved to Nigerians that he is truly a national leader with no bias or preference for any section of the country, saying, ” Chief Obasanjo as a sitting President from Yorubaland, did not pamper corrupt elements and trouble makers from the Yoruba extraction during his tenure.”
He added that Dr. Frederick Fasheun and Otunba Gani Adams, who were factional OPC leaders were arrested by Obasanjo’ s government then, not minding that they were leading a Yoruba group, adding that he wondered why the incumbent “President Buhari is hesitant to arrest and bring to justice, rampaging Fulani herdsmen, who have constituted themselves as a major threat to national security.”
Comrade Akinpelu then urged the President to jettison his second term ambition, saying that “peoples of southern Nigeria cannot trust Buhari with their mandate again.”
