The Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore Fulani Socio-cultural Association has accused the National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of masterminding and bankrolling the #EndSARS protests currently rocking the country.
Miyetti Allah claimed that the #EndSARS protests, allegedly being financed by Tinubu, were planning to undermine and overthrow democratically elected government of President Mohammadu Buhari.
The group claimed that Tinubu’s alleged action against Buhari was because the APC stalwart had lost out “in the plans to contest the presidential election under the All Progressive Congress in 2023.”
Miyetti Allah, however, warned that they won’t take it lightly with Tinubu should anything untoward happen to their kinsman.
They said this in a statement titled, ‘#EndSARS: Gathering of political vultures,’ in Kaduna on Monday.
The statement was signed by Miyetti Allah’s National President, Alhaji Abdullahi Bodejo, and the Secretary, Alhaji Saleh Alhasan.
According to them, the continued protests despite government’s yielding is an attempt to ground the country and create more suffering in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The group demanded that Tinubu should call off the #EndSARS protests and allow the Federal Government to fashion out modalities to address the nation’s challenges.
Alleging “ethnic and regional colouration” to the #EndSARS protests, they added, “Some people from certain regions are trying to undermine and overthrow a democratically-elected government or intimidate the North to give up its rights to rule beyond 2023.
“The insistence to continue to protest even when government has made concessions; the open defiance is reckless, provocative; denial of access to means of livelihood can lead to fracas and conflict.
“The demands of the protesters are nebulous, inconsistent, haphazard, whimsical, and impossible to meet.”
When contacted, Tinubu’s spokesman, Tunde Rahman, said, “As it has been stated elsewhere, Asiwaju Tinubu could not have sponsored the #EndSARS protest that has blocked one of the main entries into and out of Lagos and one of the economic arteries of the Lagos State Government. He could also not have sponsored such a protest where he too has been labelled a target by the organisers.”