A pan Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has denounced the comments credited to a former governor of Kwara State, Alhaji Musa Rabiu Kwankwaso, during his recent visit to Ibadan describing it as “uncouth, rude and insensitive.”
The ex-governor, now a senator, had during the inauguration of some facilities in Ibadan reportedly asked some Yoruba elders to “shut up.”
According to Afenifere, Kwankwaso’s grouse with the Yoruba leaders was their call for an end to the criminal activities of Fulani herdsmen in the South West at a recent summit in Ibadan. At the summit, the leaders had said they would reconsider the place of the Yoruba nation in Nigeria if the Federal Government could not protect their people from the incessant attacks of the Fulani herdsmen.
But Afenifere in a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Yinka Odunakin, on Monday, said Kwankwaso did not condemn the abduction of a former Minister of Finance, Chief Olu Falae, by the Fulani herdsmen.
He said, “The declaration is not anywhere near the statement of Gen. Yakubu Gowon on August 3, 1966 that “there is no basis for Nigeria unity, which has been so badly rocked, not only once but several times,” or the theme of the North’s revenge coup of July 29,1967 titled, ARABA, an Hausa word meaning “let us divide it.”
“In all his ramblings in Ibadan, Kwankwaso did not condemn the abduction of Chief Olu Falae, the killing of innocent farmers, the raping of women and destruction of crops and farmlands in the course of the grazing activities of Fulani herdsmen. He only tacitly justified their activities by offering excuses for their criminal conducts.”
Afenifere noted that Kwankwaso’s utterance was a replay of the sordid episode of 2,000 when some Arewa leaders stormed the office of the late Oyo State Governor, Alhaji Lam Adesina, on behalf of nomadic cattle rustlers.
“It is another sad day for the clash of civilizations within the Lugard cage when a man who has occupied all the offices Kwankwaso has held, opens his mouth in a people’s domain and all he vomits make listeners to confuse him with a herdsman
“With the uncouth, rude and insensitive remarks of Kwankwaso and his ilk in the North which are like pouring salt on injury, it is coming clear to us that there may be a grand agenda with the activities of the Fulani herdsmen either as an advance party of Boko Haram into our territory or an expansionist project.”
Fulani Herdsmen: Afenifere takes on Kwankwaso for insulting Yoruba leaders
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