9TH JANUARY 2018

PRESS RELEASE

FULANI HERDSMEN, OPC WARNS BUHARI

Dr. Frederick Fasehun, President of the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC), has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to ensure that the $1 billion security loan the government is canvassing for would be employed in fighting killer Fulani herdsmen.

He also asked the President to relinquish the Petroleum Ministry, as well as unbundle the Ministry of Power, Works and Housing and hand the resultant establishments over to three professional ministers.

Speaking in Lagos at a Press Conference, themed “STATE OF THE NATION 2018,” the OPC Founder said the first duty of government was to provide security, a task he said President Buhari had woefully failed to discharge, especially in relation to killings by Fulani herdsmen and Fulani militia in what, it said, appeared to be a case of organised ethnic cleansing against Northern Minorities and other Nigerian tribes.

Fasehun, who was flanked by OPC’s Deputy President, Otunba Wasiu Afolabi, and its National Coordinator, Alhaji Mudashiru Adeniji, said: “In the wake of this ugly genocides came the shameless and insensitive pronouncement by the government’s spokesman, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information and Culture, on no less a medium than the BBC, that the Fulani herdsmen were a lesser threat than the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. It was an uncanny statement. For the government to have this unperturbed attitude to Fulani herdsmen, internationally reputed as the fourth deadliest terrorist organisation in the world, amounts to ignoring a dangerous viper on the bed. Ranking after Boko Haram, ISIL and El-Shabaab on the Global Terrorism Index, armed Fulani militias today constitute the real threat to national unity, with their rapacious evil campaigns throughout the length and breadth of this country.”

As far as OPC was concerned, clearly, the pastoral nomadic lifestyle of the Fulani herdsmen was no longer fashionable and sustainable, and they should be compelled to embrace modern ranching as obtained worldwide.

According to him, the killings persisted and perpetrators were emboldened by the fact that no single Fulani killer had been hanged for murder.

OPC issued a warning.

“This cannot continue. Killers must be brought to book and made to feel the full weight of the law. Nobody has a monopoly of violence; and in the face of threats to their very survival, people will eventually resort to self-help, a move that can tear this country apart and turn Nigeria into a free-for-all killing field. The military and other security forces must tackle the menace of Fulani militias by declaring a security emergency, disarming Fulani herdsmen and bringing Fulani killers to justice,” the group said.

Fasehun lamented that the government had also failed on the economic front.

In his words: “The economy is in shambles, infrastructure dilapidated, insecurity widespread, workers’ salaries are unpredictable and corruption has new merchants among the President’s henchmen.”

He accused Buhari of failing in his campaign promise to stop importation of petroleum products, revamp the refineries and reduce the pump price of petrol, and urged him to learn from President Goodluck Jonathan who appointed a substantive Minister of Petroleum.

“Nigerians are tired of the ongoing blame game between government and oil marketers. All Nigerians want is FUEL! An oil-rich nation like Nigeria, owning four national refineries, has no business importing fuel! Buhari has failed as Minister of Petroleum; he simply lacks the health, the capacity and the creativity to manage Nigeria’s biggest revenue resource. Buhari should relinquish the mantle of Minister of Petroleum to a competent and experienced petroleum industrialist whose sole mandate will be to get the refineries operating at full capacity and ensure local production for domestic consumption within three to six months,” Fasehun said.

OPC demanded the political restructuring of the country, pointing out that, the United Kingdom, Nigeria’s former colonialist had restructured to the point of substantial granting autonomy to Wales, Ireland and Scotland.

The group said: “As currently constituted, Nigeria needs to be restructured. The current system is not only robbing Peter to pay Paul, it has encouraged audaciousness, ingratitude and indolence on the part of Paul. It is a monkey-dey-work-baboon-dey-chop arrangement that cannot survive. Right now, Nigeria’s Centre is too powerful. The country should return to the pre-military 1963 arrangement agreed by our nation’s founding fathers with autonomy and devolution of power to the regions and the states.”

DR. FREDERICK FASEHUN
Founder/President, Oodua People’s Congress (OPC)

Ki Kanakana To Naa Omo Eye Ega.

Someone will soon come here to call Fasehun "IPOB yoot" just because he called out their god Buhari

RZArecta:
Someone will soon come here to call Fasehun "IPOB yoot" just because he called out their god Buhari

Use ur brain. U tink it's d coward ohaneze dey are talking about here?

MasterKim:

Use ur brain. U tink it's d coward ohaneze dey are talking about here?

get lost Mr dindinrin

Buhari is a terrorist.
I am very disappointed in him.

The menace of the herdsmen will be Buhari's greatest legacy if he keeps burying his head in the sand. You can't keep screaming agricultural revolution and remain cavalier about the sacking and killing of farmers who are meant to drive it.

I don't think calling them to order should be a difficult thing for him unless of course ffk and Co are right about him

RZArecta:
get lost Mr dindinrin

Oobi e pain am
I dey my house koman beat me
Na backyard I go dey if u no see me for parlor ,

Shuku0kukobambi:
The menace of the herdsmen will be Buhari's greatest legacy if he keeps burying his head in the sand. You can't keep screaming agricultural revolution and remain cavalier about the sacking and killing of farmers who are meant to drive it.

I don't think calling them to order should be a difficult thing for him unless of course ffk and Co are right about him

For once you made sense. If you continue like this, the world will be a better place.

"The killings persisted and perpetrators were emboldened by the fact that no single Fulani killer had been hanged for murder"

Mohomodu Buhary will answer the call for accountability ONE-DAY.

OPC dey even talk to person wey get ear problem

g0tze:

[s]For once you made sense. If you continue like this, the world will be a better place.[/s]

You're a hopeless entity following after me because your miserable life will end the day you stop. just continue for your own good

We are talking about 2019 again.....

All we are saying now is next year....



Our PVCs would be put into action.

Simone that said attack on BH is attack on north..

the same person you wanna plead with to curb his Fulani brothers achievements..


I lol

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Shuku0kukobambi:


You're a hopeless entity following after me because your miserable life will end the day you stop. just continue for your own good

This woman so you are still a bitter old soul, What a pity.

g0tze:
This woman so you are still a bitter old soul, What a pity.

Glad to know OPC is still kicking

Opc shit

i cant believe i read this!!!

I don't even Know that Afonja OPC still functioning

OPC should extend their warning to El-Rufai 'cos that Midget is worse than Buhari. Just a reminder of his tweet when GEJ was dealing with these fulani terrorists.

EASY39:
Ki Kanakana To Naa Omo Eye Ega.

Tani kanakana, Tani eye Ega?

A nilo alaye rampe

ANYTIME I WAKE UP N HEAR YORUBAS BEATING THE DRUM OF WAR I WILL GO BACK TO SLEEP(SANI ABACHA)

The yoruba's ve been living in denial right frm in the days of adam, always pretending as if every thing is ok, they are second class citizens compare to the hauses

Hector09:
The yoruba's ve been living in denial right frm in the days of adam, always pretending as if every thing is ok, they are second class citizens compare to the hauses

CHANNELStv2020:
ANYTIME I WAKE UP N HEAR YORUBAS BEATING THE DRUM OF WAR I WILL GO BACK TO SLEEP(SANI ABACHA)

One thing am proud of my tribe for is that, they remain the only ethnic group with a standby militia group. Sometimes, I wondered why those people affected with fulani menace are doing. This cannot happened in any of the Yoruba states without serious consequences on the perpetrators.

Infact, we wont go after them since their tactics is to attack and dissapear. We will go after their kinsmen in our midst. You kill 5 of us, we kill 50 of you.....you kill 50, we kill 2,000 of you. When the heat is unbearable for both of us, even the useless FG will be forced to declare state of emergency.......have u'all ever wondered whe the dreaded boko haram av not touched Lagos or anywhere in Yorubaland.....

OPC toothless bulldogs
... meanwhile it's too annoying why the dullard in chief of Armforce Bullhari have not say anything about this senseless killing by his kinsmen, does it mean Fulani terrorist deserve special treatment as the lord and masters of Nigerians


I blame AFONJA for this blunder

I'm sure sarrki will have good reason to condemn everything this man said since what he said are not in support of buhari. I have a feeling that sarrki has a serious foundational problem.

Easy jeje

Fasehun said: “In the wake of this ugly genocides came the shameless and insensitive pronouncement by the government’s spokesman, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information and Culture, on no less a medium than the BBC, that the Fulani herdsmen were a lesser threat than the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. It was an uncanny statement.
For the government to have this unperturbed attitude to Fulani herdsmen, internationally reputed as the fourth deadliest terrorist organisation in the world, amounts to ignoring a dangerous viper on the bed. Ranking after Boko Haram, ISIL and El-Shabaab on the Global Terrorism Index, armed Fulani militias today constitute the real threat to national unity, with their rapacious evil campaigns throughout the length and breadth of this country.”

The above says it all. This Govt has run mad