Former Governor asks Yoruba leaders to stop threatening Fulani Herdsmen

chika ebuzor

October 26, 2015 5:11 AM

I am Fulani. My parents settled many years ago. My father went to school and I have been to school. My children have gone to school. Now, I don’t think I will get cattle and go into a forest; that is education for you.

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The Kano State ex-Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, while speaking to newsmen at Ibadan, said asking the Fulani herdsmen to leave the South-West, is not the solution.

Sun Newspapers reports that Kwankwaso said “It is not only peculiar to the South-West. We just have to have a lot of understanding of the situation. Some of the issues being raised by the people, especially politicians, do not help anybody. If you sack the Fulani from here or you fight them, maybe it is because you are here. If you are a Yoruba man based in Kano, I don’t think you can contemplate sacking the Fulani. I am from Kano, but right now, I am in Ibadan. Where you are is your home. Today, Ibadan is my home. God forbid, if something bad happens here, it will affect me. If it happens in my village, I am not there; they won’t see me.”

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He also said “I am Fulani. My parents settled many years ago. My father went to school and I have been to school. My children have gone to school. Now, I don’t think I will get cattle and go into a forest; that is education for you.”

“I want people to go round Nigeria to know that everybody has got land. It is good for people to go round, at least, this country or beyond to realise that Nigerians are Nigerians; everybody comes from somewhere. But it is good for us to go round to see other places, to understand them, interact with them so that we can have a very peaceful Nigeria. This is what we are working for. So, when you see those people making the threats in the South-West, advise them to shut up,” Kwankwaso added.

You will recall that the Yoruba Council of Elders issued an ultimatum banning Fulani Herdsmen from the South-West.

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