Amidst the drama of the one week quit notice given to criminal herdsmen by Yoruba activist, Sunday Igboho, a Fulani activist has threatened to banish Yorubas from the north.
Professor Umar Lamido who is a university don stated this while reacting to the quit notice by Igboho.
He condemned the quit notice issued to Fulani herders in Ondo and some part of southwest over alleged complicity in kidnapping and other sundry crime.
Speaking on Sunday, January 31, Labdo said the evacuation notice to herdsmen belies the position of the constitution which grants Nigerians freedom and rights to reside in any part of the country irrespective of tribes and faiths.
Lamido who is a lecturer at Yusuf Maitama Sule University, Kano, said if the southwest insists on expulsion of the herders out of the region, all the Yoruba people residing in the north will face the same faith.
Speaking in an interview, he attacked both Sunday Igboho and Governor Akeredolu, saying their actions can lead to counter-attack on Yoruba people living where “the arms of law cannot reach.”
“This Governor Akeredolu, he is a Yoruba man, he is expelling my people, the Fulani, from his own state. Now, we have Yoruba in Fulani states.
“We have Yoruba in Kano, we have them in Adamawa and we have them in cities and very small villages, they are living in peace. You find them where the arms of the law cannot reach, where there is no presence of police at all.
“So people, in retaliation, can do whatever they want to do to them. Just like their brothers are doing to us in the bush.So you are saying, you hit me and I’ll hit back?”
Recall that Fulani herders have been accused of being responsible for the rise in sundry crimes including kidnapping, maiming and killing of farmers in the southwest.
Governor Rotimi Akeredolu had issued a two-week quit notice to the herders to leave the Ondo State forests, arguing the criminals among the herders are using the reserves as hideouts for their heinous activities.
On Friday, January 22, some Yoruba youths led by a popular activist Igboho stormed Igangan town in Ibarapa region of Oyo State to chase the Fulani heders out of the community after the expiration of the quit notice earlier issued.
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