Prominent leaders and elder statesmen from four of the six geo-political zones of the country under the auspices of Southern and Middle Leaders Forum (SMBLF), have written an open letter to President Bola Tinubu, warning him against adopting what they describe as “Buhari’s deceitful mindset” on killings in Middle-Belt region of the country.
In the letter which was jointly signed by the leader of SMBLF and South-South leader, Chief Edwin Clark, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, leader, Afenifere, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, President-General, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Dr. Pogu Bitrus, President, Middle Belt Forum, and Senator Emmanuel Ibok-Essien, National Chairman, Pan-Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), and made available to journalists in Abuja on Tuesday, the group accused former President Muhammadu Buhari of deliberately turning a blind eye and covering himself by a “deceitful mindset that people of the North-West were of the same tribes and religion and wondered why they were fighting among themselves”.
The elder statesmen who raised concerns over the relentless killings in the Middle-Belt region, especially Plateau State, described the killings as ethnic cleansing and called on Tinubu do everything possible to “nip in the bud the incessant killings and wanton destruction of lives and property in the Middle Belt.”
