Afenifere: Nigerians Must Uproot Buhari's Administration, Rejects Cattle Ranch in Yorubaland

 

The Pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, for the umpteenth time on Tuesday berated President Muhammadu Buhari for his alleged nonchalant attitude in the handling of the killings in several parts of the country.

Specifically, Afenifere in a communique at the end of its meeting in Akure, Ondo State, described as infuriating the responses of Buhari and that of Miyetti Allah on the killings.

The group in the three-point communique entitled: ‘Enough Is Enough’ signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Yinka Odumakin, said the response of the Miyetti Allah and that of the president came from the same source.

Disturbed by the devastating killings and attendant destruction, Afenifere said Nigerians must do everything possible to reject the re-election bid of the president.

The group said: “These wanton killings and official irresponsibility portray Nigeria as a barbaric entity and that Yoruba people are pained living in the same space with the bestial elements who kill innocent people in cruel manner.

"Nigerians must now gird their loins and see the democratic uprooting of this administration as a task that must be done in 2019 so as to save the country from utter destruction.

"There is no land where the blood of the innocent is being shed daily like Nigeria that can make progress in any area of human endeavor." Afenifere said.

The group asked its people to  have special prayers  for the souls of all those killed  and for God to have mercy on Nigeria in  all our mosques on Friday June 29 and in our churches next Sunday July 1 for Him  to see us through the last few months of this administration.

Afenifere also condemned Buhari on the calls for the restructuring of the country, particularly his statement when he met with Urhobo leaders.

The president was berated for saying that "every group asking for restructuring has got their own agenda and I hope it can be accommodated by the constitution."

The Yoruba group said the call for restructuring was a selfless one to rescue the country.

"We say without any reservation to the president that the call for restructuring is a selfless call borne out of the need to retrieve Nigeria from the brink of collapse and put it back on track.

"If the president talks about people with personal agenda on restructuring, it can only be those who insert it in their manifestos to win elections and turn around to say they are getting different definitions of  restructuring after they came to power.

"We insist that for the country to move forward and develop, it has to be restructured into a proper federation," the communique stated.

Afenifere also rejected the idea of public funded ranches in Yorubaland, describing the move as an imperialist agenda of cresting Federal Cattle Territories (FCT) across Nigeria.

It said: "We insist that cattle rearing is a private business and the government has no business getting involved if there was no sinister motive.

"No inch of Yorubaland will be available for such and no governor should cede any land for such."