Lawyer Aloy Ejimakor has called out Fulani leaders for their silence amid escalating attacks in Southern Nigeria, posing a hypothetical scenario to highlight the inconsistency in their response. He asked how they would react if Yoruba and Igbo people infiltrated their region and carried out constant kidnapping raids, destroying farms, maiming, and killing their people under the guise of herding cattle or other activities.
Ejimakor's Challenge to Fulani Leaders
In a statement sent to our correspondent, Ejimakor asserted, “Well, I don’t think you would tolerate it, going by your antecedents. You may even go further to heap a collective blame on the entire Igbo or Yoruba race and accuse them of some sinister ethnic agenda or plot reminiscent of the false flags of 1966.” He emphasized that organized acts of kidnapping and other forms of violence cascading across Southern Nigeria, traceable to Fulanis, have reached a point where the entire South feels that “your studied silence when these things happen is no longer golden.”
Questioning the Silence
Ejimakor questioned whether Fulani leaders lack basic compatriot spirit or worse, silently agree with Sheikh Gumi, a Fulani leader who openly makes excuses for these vile acts and condones them. He wondered why Fulani leaders cannot speak up now to condemn what Islamic cleric Sheikh Ahmad Gumi is saying and dissociate the mainstream Fulani race from the mayhem committed by fringe criminal elements among them.
“Think about this and speak out now. There is power in words,” Ejimakor concluded.
