Following a newspaper report credited to the National President of Miyetti Allah stating that Nigeria belongs to Fulani, the leadership of Christian Association of Nigeria in the north, said the statement confirms those who do not want peace and unity in the country.
CAN condemned the statement and insisted that Nigeria does not belong to any ethnic group, section or religion “but to every one of us. Making such false claims as that of Miyetti Allah’s President only creates tension and fuels crisis.
CAN Northern Vice Chairman, Rev John Joseph Hayab, in a statement urged security agencies in the country to invite the leadership of the group over the statement it described as “reckless”.
“CAN, therefore, calls on the Federal Government through the Director General of State Security Service and Inspector General of Police to have a session with the ethnic superiority champion to school him on the diversity of Nigeria and the need for restraint from such reckless statements.
“All well-meaning members of the Miyetti Allah group need to urgently disassociate themselves from the provocative statement linked to the group as proof that the speaker is not playing a script.
Without a doubt, there are members of Miyetti Allah who love this country genuinely, craving to see the country grow in peace and develop in every sphere reckon that the statement credited to the group’s President is not a popular view, as such, needs to be publicly opposed.
“Nigeria’s problems are numerous; from insecurity to bad economy and now the Covid-19. CAN, therefore, does not want to add to the barrage of problems the country faces by letting unscrupulous people make grave and ungodly utterances that have dangerous security implications,” he said.
