*Says protesters trying to overthrow Buhari
*Cites UI lecturer, #ENDSARS initiator ‘Segalink’ confessions, self gathered facts
The Miyetti Allah KautalHore has fingered National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in the extended widespread protests hiding behind the #ENDSARS initiative to remove Muhammadu Buhari as President.
It will be recalled that the convener of the #ENDSARS protest, Segun Awosanya also Segalink, has since announced the end of the protest citing President Buhari’s acceptance and doing of his initiative’s five demands which were mainly centered on brutality and other atrocities of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) and other officers and men of the Nigeria Police Force.
Awosanya said the movement had been hijacked as he tweeted: “All efforts to talk sense into the arrowheads, who are mostly abroad and the few in their high estates have proven abortive. I believe everyone is matured enough to face the consequences of their actions.”
He added in an interview that: “Staging coordinated attacks on prominent reform advocates and then using a credible advocacy’s campaign to raise funds through an unregistered NGO, threatening the integrity of our nation and gunning for youth insurrection in the name of #EndSARS. Is this even sane?” He asked.
Awosanya did not mention Tinubu but clearly stated that those who hijacked the protests and have refused to quit the streets are funded.
Miyetti Allah KautalHore, a pressure group in Northern Nigeria, accused the #EndSARS protesters of planning to undermine and overthrow democratically elected government of President Muhammadu Buhari.
The association said the ethnic and regional colouration of the protests also show that some people from certain regions are trying to intimidate the North to give up its rights to rule.
The National President, Miyetti Allah KautalHore Fulani Socio-cultural Association, Abdullahi Bello Bodejo, who disclosed this in a statement Monday in Abuja, accused the former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu of being the sole financier of the protests.
“Miyetti Allah KautalHore is calling on the sponsors of this particular protest headed by the former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu as exposed by Prof. Adebesi of University of Ibadan to immediately stop this demonstration,” Bodejo said.
He noted that the game plan of Tinubu is to bring down the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, since he can no longer realise his presidential ambition.
“Our findings also revealed that, the former Lagos Governor is the sole financier of the ongoing protest having lost out in the plans to contest the Presidential election under the All Progressive Congress (APC) in 2023.
“We will hold him accountable should anything happen to President Buhari’s administration. To avoid this, he must immediately put the protest to an end while the Federal Government put in modalities to address the challenges confronting the nation.
According to Bodejo, “For weeks now citizens, especially our youths have taken to the streets to demand an end to SARS or Police brutality and also requesting for a reform of the Nigerian Police Force.
“Thankfully, these demands have been made by the Federal Government, and ordering arrest and persecution of those Police officers involved in extra-judicial killings of citizens.
“And since the Federal Government has heard and accepted the issues raised by the protesters, it is only wise for the protesters to stop as government needs time to implement their demands.
He noted that the protests have yielded the desired results with the government accepting their genuine demands and working to address all of them.
“For us, Nigerian citizens came out of to demand for justice and the government responded positively. It is therefore, unacceptable for the protesters to now involve blocking of roads, thereby denying other citizens the right to use the roads. This is an attempt to ground the country and create more suffering in the midst of COVID-19 pandemic.
He maintained that 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.
“According to Segalink, the person who started the whole thing, the protest has been hijacked and is being engineered by elements from abroad and some wealthy individuals from their mansions.”
