The Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum (SMBLF) on
Tuesday advised relevant authorities in Nigeria, particularly the federal
government, to call the Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, to order
to prevent him from stoking ethnic crisis in his state.
Making the call Tuesday in a statement by the National
Publicity Secretary, pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, Mr. Yinka
Odumakin, the Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum (SMBLF) alleged that the
governor’s actions are capable of igniting crisis.
According to the body, “The Southern and Middle Belt Leaders
Forum has watched with keen interest recent attempt by El-Rufai to foment ethnic
crisis in his state on the eve of the botched February 16 presidential
elections.
“The governor had claimed the reprisal killing of 66 Fulani
people in Kajuru LGA of the state with fanfare but has yet to show evidence of
deaths as we write this.”
The leaders lamented that “the glee with which the governor
went on air on Friday, February 15, 2019 alleging the killings was shocking for
the chief executive of a state.”
They noted that “The governor went ahead to list the number
of villages that were attacked but deliberately excluded Ungwan Barde where 11
people with identified corpses were killed
for whatever reasons best known to him.
“The governor claimed that the incident happened on the eve
of the election. But the truth by the community concerned is that the incident
took place between February 10 and February 12, 2019 in Ungwar Barde in Kufana
district, where 11 innocent Adara people were killed by suspected herdsmen
without any provocation.”
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