Amotekun: Yoruba people are the most primitive in terms of politics - Miyetti Allah
- Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore is still insistent on its opposition to the newly created Operation Amotekun
- The Fulani socio-cultural association has gone a step further to call the Yorubas primitive in terms of politics
- The national secretary of the group, Alhassan Saleh, said this during a live television programme on Tuesday, January 20
Fulani socio-cultural association, Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore says the support for Amotekun by southwest leaders, shows how primitive Yoruba people are in politics.
Alhassan Saleh, national secretary of the group, stated this when he appeared as a guest on Channels Television on Monday, January 20
Saleh berated the Yoruba intelligentsia and political class for supporting the initiative, alleging that the security outfit is geared towards halting the activities of Fulani herdsmen in the southwest.
Last week, Saleh had in an interview with a national newspaper, stated that Amotekun could cost the southwest the presidency in 2023.
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His comments sparked outrage and condemnations by southwest leaders and some Nigerians on social media.
Asked if he truly made the comment, Saleh answered in the affirmative and said the comment was not to blackmail the southwest.
His words: “It is not blackmail. Unfortunately, with very strong apology to my southwest friends, despite the education of the Yoruba people, they still remain the most primitive in terms of politics.
“They are not tolerant to opposition and if you allow them to have an ethnic army, definitely there will be fear from Nigerians.”
He called on the federal government not to allow the security outfit to begin operation, describing Amotekun as an ethnic militia.
Recall that the president-general of the group, Bello Abdullahi Bodejo recently called on the federal government to arrest Yoruba leaders promoting Operation Amotekun.
Bodejo who made the statement in an interview with Daily Sun, alleged that the aim of setting up the security outfit by southwest governors was to ban Fulani herdsmen from Yorubaland.
Meanwhile, despite the federal government's pronouncement that Operation Amotekun is illegal, southwest governors have commenced moves to give legal backing to the region security outfit.
Already, laws to back up Amotekun are before southwest states' Houses of Assembly while lawmakers are already fast-tracking the legislation.
In a related development, the Kogi state government said it would strengthen its own borders to avoid infiltration by external forces especially following the launch of Operation Amotekun in the southwest region.
Special adviser to the state governor on security, Commandant Jerry Omodara (rtd), said the state being at the centre of the country may experience some infiltration by fleeing criminals from the southwest region.
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