President Muhammadu Buhari has come under heavy criticism by Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, over his failure to call Fulani herdsmen terrorising the country to order.
Ortom made it clear at a press conference in Makurdi on Wednesday, that Buhari was the president of Nigeria not the president of the Fulani tribe.
According to the report by Punch Newspaper who monitored the press conference, Ortom, who just recovered from the COVID-19 virus urged the president to act as the president as no Nigerian is a second class citizen.
Ortom also lambasted the Presidency for calling for the arrest of popular Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo known as Sunday Igboho who acted when the Presidency kept mum about the constant killing of Nigerians by herdsmen. a
He said, “When I talk, I was being castigated, I was being vilified, nothing bad that was not said against me, I am this and that but the reality is here and it is not just happening in Benue State today, it is happening in the entire country.
“Why is the Federal Government being silent about these Fulani herdsmen? When will Federal Government come out and criticise and arrest herdsmen carrying AK-47? When are they going to do that? Are we second (-class) citizens in this country? Why (is) the Fulani men superior to a Tiv man? I am not their slave, a Benue man is noa t slave to any Fulani man in this country.
“We stand for justice, equity and fairness. Whatever is happening to a Fulani man should also happen to a Tiv man. That was why I called the Federal Government to licence me and many others to have guns, to have AK-47 too. Because if I have my AK-47 and a Fulani man is coming there, he knows that I have and he has, then we can fight each other.
Source: Punch
