Lauretta Onochie, Senior Special Assistant on Social Media to President Muhammadu Buhari says that a lot of hatred is directed at the Fulani ethnic group as a way of getting back at the president.
In a series of tweets on Monday, she said that there was no tribe without bad eggs, noting that criminalising the whole Fulani tribe for the activities of a few amounted to “fishing for trouble”.
Onochie stated this while reacting to a comment by popular human rights lawyer, Femi Falana SAN.
She shared a Channels Television video in which Falana condemned the tendency to blame all kidnapping and other criminal activities in the South on Fulani people.
“It is as if nobody in the South is an armed robbery or a kidnapper; All kidnapping stories are traced to the Fulani herdsmen,” Falana stated.
The senior lawyer added that “we must stop tracing the ethnic orientation or religion of criminals.”
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Reacting to Falana and a similar comment by APC chieftain, Rotimi Fashakin, Onochie wrote, “If there is an ethnic or community clash where lives and properties are lost, we pick and choose which to attribute to community clash and which to lay on the doorsteps of the Fulanis, Buhari’s ethnic group, in order to satisfy the craving for more bitterness and hatred towards Buhari.
“There is no tribe that is free of bad eggs. But criminalising an ethnic group because you don’t like President Buhari’s face, is nothing short of evil and fishing for trouble.”
She berated critics of the Buhari administration for allegedly being insatiable.
“They had asked for restructuring. Buhari has no power to alter the constitution so he did what is within his power…After restructuring, they moved to Fulani herdsmen and Boko Haram,” Onochie wrote.
According to her, “Those threatening mayhem must calm down, take a deep breath and remember that this is the only nation we can truly call, “ours”.
“The ballot box is usually, the best way to change a government. That is in 2023. Let common sense prevail. God bless Nigeria,”