Quit, if you cannot Lead, Nigerian Activists Tell President Buhari

Quit, if you cannot Lead, Nigerian Activists Tell President Buhari

 …Plan to storm Aso Rock

A groups of human rights activists in Nigeria have urged President

Muhamamdu Buhari to step aside from office if he cannot put a stop to the incessant Fulani herdsmen ‘mindless’ killings of innocent citizens of the country. 

The activists also indicated that they have concluded arrangement to storm presidential villa (Aso Rock) to register their displeasure over the development.

They sympathised with the governments and people of the affected

states and communities over the loss of their love ones in the Fulani Herdsmen massacre, calling on governments at all levels to come to the aid of the affected people and families to ameliorate their suffering as a result of the ‘dastard’ incident.

The activists under the aegis of Centre for Human Rights and Social

Justice (CHRSJ) are Centre for Constitutional Rights and

Counter Corruption Crusader, Save Lagos Group (SLG), The Conscience

Mainstream (TMG), African Masses Voices for Survival (AMVS), The

Christians Youths for the People’s Rights and Development (CYPRD), Islamic Movement for Muslims’ Rights (IMMR) and Divine Nigerians Liberators for People’s’ Fundamental Rights(DNLPFR).

Others are the Christian Awareness Mission Group (CAMG), Passengers

Fundamental Rights Group (PATRGIA), The Political Awareness Group (TIPAG), Centre for Social Justice and Equity of

Nigeria (CESJEN), Civil Societies Coalition for the Emancipation of Osun State (CSCEOS), Veteran Groups for Operation Clean Crusade (VGOCC), Apata-Aiyeraye Social Political Volunteer Group(ASPVG)

and De-Mainstream Independent Group(DIG).

Rising from their meeting on the ‘state of the nation’

today, the leader of the coalition, Adeniyi, Alimi Sulaiman, disclosed that they discussed extensively at the meeting on the ongoing killing of innocent Nigerians by the Fulani herdsmen, particularly the Agatu and Enugu killings where over 40 people were killed, insisting that they would soon storm the Aso Rock in large numbers to show their grievances against the Fulani herdsmen massacre and ostensible insincerity of the President Buhari to protection lives and property as stipulated in the amended 1999 Constitution.

Sulaiman who called on the security agencies in the country to wake up from their slumber and be alive to their constitutional duties of protecting the lives and property of the citizens, urged the

them to increase their intelligence gathering mechanism to forestall any future occurrence, stressing that this was how Boko Haram insurgency began some years back in the country.

The group gave President Buhari and security agents seven-day ultimatum to fish out the sponsors of the Agatu and Enugu massacre by bringing them to justice, adding that if the president doesn’t

Do anything to put an end to the “Fulani herdsmen madness, then, there is trouble in his hand.”

They strongly condemned the body language of President Buhari over the

Fulani herdsmen massacre, and for showing no serious concern to the development which they alleged “shows his ethnic bigotry nature contrary to the Oaths of Allegiance for the office of the president in line with the seventh schedule of the amended 1999 Constitution.”

He alleged that the remnants of Boko Haram sect began the current attacks on the farmers with arms which were contrary to the section 227 of the amended 1999 Constitution.

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According to the coalition, “Let’s call a spade a spade. We are strongly condemning the recent brutal invasion of communities in the country, especially the Agatu and Enugu by the Fulani herdsmen and the attitude of the federal government over the herdsmen serious threat to the peaceful co-existence of Nigerians.

“It is high time President Buhari quit office if he cannot put this madness under control. We feel that Buhari-led government is just playing games and politics with the lives of innocent human beings. This mindless killing must be stopped within the reasonable time before it goes out of hand.”