The Atiku Mandate Group has tackled the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria over the alleged endorsement of President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election bid.
The group, in a statement issued in Abuja by Sunny Areh, its Director of Media and Publicity, while condemning the action, described the Miyetti Allah as “one of the most destabilising groups that have wreaked havoc on Nigerians and looking more like an endorsement by Boko Haram.”
It said the association’s action amounted to an endorsement of failure to protect lives and properties and a confirmation that there had been a covert and existing relationship between Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association and the President, who had been its life patron.
The Atiku Mandate Group said: “It is strange, but we are not surprised because being life patron of Miyetti Allah, he (Buhari) has guaranteed the group the forceful land seizures from citizens across the country for their cattle colonies. The endorsement is a reciprocity of being the protector-in-chief of its atrocities.”
“It is laughable that an association that acknowledges mass murders by its members is pledging to collaborate with security agencies to fish out bad eggs within its fold, when it has always been known that the group enjoys state protection.
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“Nigerians should be on the alert on the group’s claims of its plan to mobilise 20 million votes for Buhari as there may be underhand strategies to use cattle grazing routes to ‘caravan’ aliens into the country and also engage in cross border voting.”
While urging all communities across the country that had suffered devastating killings by herdsmen to reject Buhari at the polls for his deliberate failure to protect their lives and properties, Areh said all men and women of goodwill should ensure the emergence of Waziri Atiku Abubakar as the nation’s next President who would bring succour to all citizens and get Nigeria working again.
