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Fulani elders berate Miyetti Allah official over Tinubu
Fulani elders have distanced themselves from one Alhaji Bello Bodejo
who claimed to be President of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, saying he
lacked the mandate and moral standing to speak for the Fulani.
Bodejo, in an interview had moved to whittle down the alleged 2019
presidential bid of All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader,
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
But in a statement on Sunday by the elders, they said Bodejo made the statement to serve some dubious interests.
The forum questioned the credentials of Bodejo and slammed him for attempting to arrogate to himself the power of Nigerians to determine who leads them.
The statement reads:
“We note with dismay a publication in The Sun Newspaper of Saturday
April 27, 2019 and attributed to one Alhaji Bello Bodejo, the self-
acclaimed President of MiyettiAllah Kautal Hore, an
association mischievously conceived to serve some dubious interests. In
the publication, Bello Bodejo was quoted as casting aspersions
on the person of All Progressives Congress National Leader, Asiwaju Bola
Ahmed Tinubu.
“Bello Bodejo’s statement is unfortunate and repulsive in all
ramifications. For one, he lacks the mandate and credibility to speak on
behalf of the Fulani. He has lost the confidence of our people because
of hiscriminal activities, which are well known to us. We challenge him
to come out and tell the whole world how his younger brother was killed
during an alleged robbery operation at Saminaka in Lere LGA, using
his Hilux vehicle.
“Bello Bodejo is a known fraudster who has made a career out of duping
poor members of his Fulani community. As at today, he leads one of the
biggest cattle-rustling-gangs in the North central zone, a
morally-depraved man who could not keep even a woman as wife in his
house. Such a person cannot be taken seriously or be highly regarded
as to speak for others.
“Bello Bodejo stands for everything unethical.
His questionable antecedents speak volumes about him and his ways.When
he realised he cannot actualize his nefarious activities under any
decent association, he resorted to desperate moves, contacting prominent
politicians,soliciting for patronage and claiming to be a leader of the
Fulani under Kautal Hore, a handbag association where he is law unto
himself.
“In 2015, he aligned himself with the then-governing PDP. To warm
himself into the heart of the party, he headed for Aso Rock Villa where
he endorsed former President Goodluck Jonathan in the name of Fulani in
Nigeria, a crime the Fulani people are yet to forgive him for. He
castigated General Muhammadu Buhari, calling him all kinds of
unprintable names.
“In the run-up to the 2019 election, Bello Bodejo also made frantic
efforts to align with the PDP Presidential
Candidate, AlhajiAtiku Abubakar, holding several meetings with him in
his Asokoro residence. When all efforts to dupe Atiku Abubakar failed,
he resorted to outright blackmail, again sayingmany unpalatable things
about Atiku.
“He later made frantic efforts to reach out to Asiwaju Tinubu in
January, 2019 to sell himself as someone with mass followers. But his
satanic plans couldn’t sail through with a
highly-intelligent Asiwaju, who can identify a fraudster when he
sees one, hence Bello Bodejo’s unprovoked outburst.
“Nigerians should know Bello Bodejo through his past antecedents. He is worthless and must be seen as such.
He does not command any decent followership as his criminal records
speakvolumes about him. He is a fraudster with questionable background
who derives pleasure in intimidating people using his clandestine
activities.
“On the issue of 2019 he raised, no one can arrogate to himself the
power to decide who should lead or aspire to lead the country. The
generality of the Nigerian people will take that crucial decision. Only a
charlatanlike Bello Bodejo, masquerading as a leader would make such
sweeping statements credited to him. The way and manner he spoke
suggests he is out to play God, which speaks to the creeping-in of
early signs of schizophrenia expressed in infantile behaviours.
“Asiwaju Tinubu is eminently qualified and well equipped to lead
the country irrespective of the thinking of people likeBodejo.
Leadership comes from God Almighty alone. Instead of focusing on the
many challenges facing the herders’community, Bodejo is busy building
castles in the air.
“He failed to acknowledge the many fine attributes of the APC National
Leader. Among other things, it is on record thatAsiwaju Tinubu, in
his uniqueness of regularly intervening to proffer solutions to
problems, sought to find panacea for many problems, including the
lingering farmers-herders’ crisis in Nigeria. Asiwaju singlehandedly
sponsored many noble initiatives aimed at fostering peaceful coexistence
between the communities in dispute.
“He sponsored two days interactive dialogue sessions in Abuja between
farmers and herders where the same Bodejo was not only present but
stayed till the end. At that time, he would tell anyone that cared to
listen that Asiwaju Tinubu was the best thing to have happened to the
country. Why the change in posture now, we may askBodejo?
“It is instructive to note that the Fulaniculture abhors shameful and
disrespectfulconduct, especially in relating to our elders. We
call on Bodejo to desist forthwith from using the name of Miyetti Allah
to spread his odious gospel of hate. He should tender an unreserved
apology to Asiwaju.
“His campaign of hate and calumny is manifested in the way he tries
to underplay or even deny Tinubu’s important contributions to the
emergence of President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015.
This is unfortunate, myopic and in bad taste. We must, however, make it
clear that its Asiwaju’s inalienable right to vie for the highest office
in the land or not. We call on Tinubu to exercise this fundamental
right as he deems fit”.
Signed
Concerned Fulani Leaders Forum
Muhammad Musa Bawa (Manman)
Sabin Garin Nabordo, Toro LGA,
Bauchi State.
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