Nigeria: Southerners are Biased, Plotting to Split North – Prof Ango Abdullahi
…Says cattle rearers are fighting back over injustice
…Asks: What makes the kidnapping of Olu Falae so special?
…‘Those who live in Lagos don’t know what is happening in Nigeria
Professor Ango Abdullahi, a former Vice Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University, is the spokesperson for the Northern Elders Forum (NEF).
Abdullahi, in this interview, bares his mind on the controversy dogging the creation of state police and herdsmen, describing the claims linking herdsmen to killings in the Middle Belt as a political agenda to split the ‘monolithic North’. He deplores what he points out as injustice meted to herdsmen, accusing the southern part of Nigeria of bias against them.
A national security meeting has reportedly accepted the creation of state policing as the way out of the insecur...