Speaking to
journalists after the meeting, Chairman, Northern Senators’ Forum, Senator
Abdullahi Adamu said the call for caution against making inflammatory
statements includes Governors. He said we will not have a country if herdsmen
are asked to leave every community.
The Northern
Senators caucus in the Senate have called for caution in attributing the
attacks carried out by some herdsmen as attacks carried out by Fulani herdsmen.
Rising from a meeting in Abuja yesterday May 4th, the group described as
unfortunate the general attribution of these attacks to a particular tribe in
the North.
“It is for all Nigerians. A governor is a community
leader. The only difference is that he has a label called governor. If you
don’t mind, in recent times, it started with the West when elder statesman,
Chief Olu Falae, had some very nasty experience.
It was
attributed at the time to Fulani herdsmen. At the end, those people were
apprehended and they were not Fulanis. This thing has been going on in
virtually all parts of the country today. If we now say that everybody should
rise and say herdsmen should leave, we will not have a country,” he said.
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