President Muhammadu Buhari has replied to Benue State
Governor, Samuel Ortom’s statement that he was not disciplining the cattle
rearers in Nigeria because he was one of them.
Recall that Ortom had in April said the
President was working for Fulanis to take over the whole country.
Ortom spoke to protesters at the Internally Displaced
Persons (IDP) camp in Abagena village, while lamenting that over 70 people were
murdered in two weeks in Makurdi Local Government Area.
The governor said, “What is happening now, to me, is very
clear; Mr President is just working for these Fulanis to take over the whole
country.”
However, speaking during an exclusive interview on Arise TV
on Thursday, Buhari said he could not deny being a kinsman of the cattle
rearers, but insisted that Ortom was being unfair to him.
Buhari said, “The problem is trying to understand the
culture of the cattle rearers. There is a cultural difference between the Tivs
and the Fulanis. So, the governor of Benue said I am not disciplining the
cattle rearers because I am one of them.
“I cannot say I am not one of them, but he is being very
unfair to me and I told him that the Nigerian cattle rearer was not carrying
anything more than a stick sometimes with a machete to cut some trees and feed
his cattle, but those sophisticated ones move with AK 47.”
Meanwhile, Gunmen suspected to be herdsmen had attempted to
assassinate Ortom during an attack on his farm along the Makurdi- Gboko road a
few months ago.
The governor had urged Nigerians not to politicise the
recent armed attack on him by suspected militia herdsmen but treat it on the
merit of the insecurity bedevilling the country.
He also appreciated President Buhari for ordering an
investigation into the attack as well as traditional rulers and the clergy for
showing solidarity with him during the incident occurred.
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