Love RUGA Or…., Arewa youths Issues Buhari And Southern Leaders 30-day Ultimatum

The Nigerian government under President Buhari and the southern leaders has been given a 30-day ultimatum to accept and implement the Ruga initiative, the ultimatum was given by the Coalition of Northern Groups, CNG, CNG has accused both the Buhari government and the southern leaders of a grand conspiracy to weaken the North, according to them, some leaders from the region are being actively supported by some elements of cowardice that present themselves as northern political leaders today who feed on the negligence and insincerity of the federal authorities.

“Throughout the last four years, the administration of President Buhari had twisted and wobbled deceitfully around the visibly stewing security situation in Northern Nigeria, especially the herders and farmers’ conflict. The administration had proposed several conflicting and ill-designed approaches to the issue, which were apparently only meant to buy time and never to be implemented.

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“We find it odd that some northern political merchants, who could not rise to condemn what is happening to their kith and kin and do not deserve to be taken seriously, were busy going round in a bid to sell the conscience of the northerners to Bola Tinubu by shamelessly waging a campaign for a fraudulent shift of power to the South-West in 2019,” they stated.

The CNG accused southern leaders issuing threats to the Federal Government ever since the Federal Government announced the Ruga Settlement Scheme as a way of putting to an end the recurring farmers-herders clashes. The coalition confirmed that the Fulani have therefore been singled out for profiling and denied access to “ordinary grazing lands and the right to thoroughfare in the South and are being hunted, expelled or slaughtered while southerners are comfortably hosted in northern cities and towns.”

The spokesman of the coalition, Abdul-Azeez Suleman, during a news conference held in Abuja on Wednesday, reiterated that

“But President Buhari and the other compromised northern leaders, who were vocal against the Kaduna Declaration could not find their voices when today the Fulani are being maltreated and vilified in the South.

“Expectedly, instead of treating our submission as a warning from history which repeats itself once as a farce, and twice as a tragedy, a bankrupt section of the northern elite comprising some unscrupulous traditional rulers, professional political lobbyists, indecent businessmen, senile retired security personnel and some accidental state governors deliberately misrepresented that noble mission of ours. This uncultured section of northern elites went to great pains to downplay that decent expression of patriotism and love of our country and fellow citizens.

“Accordingly, we remind the nation that so long as the Fulani would not be allowed to enjoy their citizens’ right of living and flourishing in any part of this country including the South, no one should also expect us to allow any southerner to enjoy the same in northern Nigeria,”

“While we warn all state governors that stand against the implementation of the Ruga initiative to desist and give peace a chance, we place President Buhari and the federal government on notice that they must act to halt and completely stop this raging madness within 30 days beginning from today, Wednesday July 3, 2019.

“The Nigerian security agencies are also placed on notice to check and bring under control the current unbridled inflammatory remarks by the southern leaders in the same manner they swiftly coined a tag of ‘hate speech’ around the Kaduna Declaration.

“We warn the elders, political and religious leaders of southern Nigeria to urgently halt the inciting remark