The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders\u2019 Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), has called on all Fulani herdsmen in the southern states of Nigeria to leave the region because of the ban on open grazing by Southern Governors.
Chairman of the Bauchi State chapter of MACBAN, Sadiq Ibrahim Ahmed, said in a weekend statement brimming with vitriol against President Muhammadu Buhari, which he described as a figure-head, and suggested was incompetent that herders operating in the south should urgently leave the region as \u201cthe governors of the 17 states that make up the region are bent on frustrating their business as well as turn the people against herders.\u201d
The\u00a0MACBAN\u00a0letter to herders reads: \u201cThis is a simple calculation. We are heading for secession. The rulers are no longer interested in the people. If some people are banned from open grazing, there is nothing more. Fulani people should move out from there. It is very simple.
\u201cMust we transport the cattle there? I have said it before. We have an option of breeding our cattle here (North). We are peace lovers. Let them come and buy from us. It is some people\u2019s fault.
\u201cThe Southern governors can do that. There is no problem, let them do what they want. If the Northern governors feel like, they can ban open grazing. We don\u2019t care.
\u201cThe President is there as a figurehead. He doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing. He is not controlling anybody. In our country now, everyone does what he feels like. The country is already moving apart. Where is the central government, if some governors can meet and take decisions that are against the Constitution?
\u201cWe also call on the President to step aside or for Nigerians to put heads together and elect a credible president in 2023, a leader with focus and competence. Nigeria should get a leader with a good example, who is ready to sacrifice his life for his subjects.\u201d
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The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders\u2019 Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), has called on all Fulani herdsmen in the southern states of Nigeria to leave the region because of the ban on open grazing by Southern Governors. Chairman of the Bauchi State chapter of MACBAN, Sadiq Ibrahim Ahmed, said in a weekend statement brimming with vitriol against […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":33382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[31,3178,830],"class_list":["post-33388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-buhari","tag-macban","tag-south"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}