The spokesman for Afenifere,
Yinka Odumakin, has lambasted a former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu, for
allegedly keeping mute when Fulani herdsmen abducted elder statesman, Olu
Falae, and attacked farmers in parts of South-West.
He dismissed Tinubu’s claims that
the South-West was not affected by herdsmen attacks, noting that the marauders
had killed people in Yewa, Oke Ogun, Akure, Ekiti and other parts of the
region.
Reacting to a statement by
Tinubu’s media aide, Tunde Rahman, in which he said the Afenifere chieftain was
suffering from selective amnesia, Odumakin, in a statement on Thursday, accused
the All Progressives Congress leader of living in denial.
He said, “Tinubu has maintained a
sinful silence as herdsmen launched vicious attacks on the South-West and other
sections of the country with thousands of lives lost in the last three years.
“He can play the ostrich all he
wants but we know he was mute when herdsmen kidnapped Chief Olu Falae. He could
not find his voice when herders killed people in Yewa, Oke Ogun, Akure, Ekiti
and the Middle Belt.
“Neither did I hear a word from
Tinubu when herdsmen kidnapped and killed a Permanent Secretary in Osun (where
Tinubu and I are from).”
Odumakin said Tinubu only
postured as a federalist when it suited him, noting that cattle herders as
businessmen should apply to state governors for land allocation if they were
interested in ranching.
“I do not intend to take issues
with him in all the personal attacks and insinuations of disorder of the mind.
Why should I when I know that it is chronic abusers of substance that are more
prone to suffer from such? Thank God I am not one of them,” Odumakin asked.
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