Stay Out Of Obi, You Are Giving Fulani Tribe A Bad Name, Professor Gidado Tells Miyetti Allah

<h4>Stay Out Of Obi&comma; You Are Giving Fulani Tribe A Bad Name&comma; Professor Gidado Tells Miyetti Allah<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that a Fulani professional group&comma; Coalition of Fulbe Professionals in Africa&comma; Monday&comma; distanced itself from a statement credited to one Alhaji Alhasan Salah&comma; said to be National Secretary of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore&comma; embarking on a campaign of calumny against the 2023 presidential candidate of Labour Party&comma; Peter Obi&period; The group described the move as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;politically sponsored&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;The organisation called on Nigerians to disregard any statement from Miyetti Allah Kauta Hore&comma; saying it did not speak for Fulani ethnic group or represented the Fulani in any way&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Alhasan had&comma; in an interview with a national newspaper&comma; said the Fulani nation would not support the candidature of Obi&comma; describing him not only as a tribal bigot but also as someone who did not like the North&comma; and by extension&comma; the Fulani tribe&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;As far as Miyetti Allah is concerned&comma; Obi is out of the options of persons to be voted for in the forthcoming elections&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;As far as we are concerned&comma; we know those we cannot vote for&period; You see the one that they call Obi or OBidient&comma; any Fulani man who votes for him must be questioned because he may not be a true son of the soil&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Obi represents the Biafran interest&period; So&comma; we know those we cannot vote for and those that cannot be President of Nigeria&period; He is a tribal bigot&comma;” he said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;But&comma; COFPIA&comma; in a statement signed by its National President&comma; Prof&period; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;punchng&period;com&sol;">Mohammed Gidado&comma;<&sol;a> and Secretary&comma; Hajiya Mairo Modibo&comma; said while it acknowledged their right to freedom of expression and opinion&comma; it would say &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;they don’t have the right to speak for the entire Fulani in Nigeria&comma; especially when they have not lived up to expectations&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;COFPIA said Fulbe people all over Nigeria &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;will not be binded by that politically sponsored statement of Miyetti Allah&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Our attention has been drawn to a sectional&comma; unpatriotic&comma; ungodly and senseless statement credited to one of our brothers&comma; Alhajji Hassan Saleh&comma; the National Secretary of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore&comma; the most controversial Fulani group in Nigeria&comma; which no doubt&comma; is responsible for the bad name Fulani nation has been branded with in Nigeria&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The Fulbe all over Nigeria will not be binded by that politically sponsored statement of Miyetti Allah anymore&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The Fulani people are wise now and cannot be used as tools of extortion and religious sentiment any more&period; We will enlighten our people to vote for competence and capacity come 2023&period; We will never vote for any candidate who has nothing to offer&period; We have gone far beyond religious and ethnic sentiments&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We will vote for a President that will tackle poverty and acute hunger that have held our people hostage for so long&period; We will vote for a President that will fight insecurity with every commitment and unbiased mind&comma; no matter who is involved&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Our respected tribal group&comma; Miyetti Allah&comma; should channel their campaign to redeem the bad image they have created for Fulani people in Nigeria rather than casting aspersions on Peter Obi&comma; who has demonstrated capacity to rescue Nigeria from the current hopelessness&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We wish to also make it categorically clear that we have not endorsed Obi or any presidential candidate in the forth-coming general election and we are not Obi’s mouthpiece&comma; but it is wrong for our people to continue to brand Peter Obi as a tribal bigot and that he doesn’t like the North&period; Available data has shown Obi as an ardent nationalist that believes in the unity of Nigeria&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Source&colon; Punch<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;