Bolaji Jimoh 
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has criticised President Bola Tinubu for asking state governors to give land to Fulani herdsmen in order to resolve the conflict between farmers and herders.
It would be recalled that President Tinubu had promised that if state governors donated land, the situation would be resolved in three weeks.
Reacting to Tinubu’s comment, IPOB in a statement issued by its Media and Publicity Secreatry, Emma Powerful, the pto-Biafran group pledged never to permit Southeast governors to give up Igbo ancestral territory.
According to the statement, the Southeast is a “no-go area” for Fulani herdsmen.
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The statement reads: “The attention of the global family and movement of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) ably led by the great and indefatigable leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has been drawn to the careless call from President Bola Tinubu to the State Governors to provide Land in each State for Fulani ranching.
“IPOB considers such a call as careless, thoughtless, and a great insult to the indigenous peoples in Nigeria who have been massacred by the same foreign marauding Fulani terrorists nicknamed herdsmen.
“Nigerian dailies yesterday reported what could be considered as the most reckless and thoughtless call by President Ahmed Bola Tinubu during a political inauguration of his Agricultural Program in Niger State. He was said to have asked the State Governors to provide land to Fulanis for RUGA and ranches in the contraption called Nigeria. Perhaps President Tinubu has forgotten that political campaigns where careless promises are made to win elections are over.
“The recent public call for the State Governors to provide land to murderous Fulanis that have committed mass murder against the indigenous peoples in Nigeria is thoughtless, careless, and is emboldening of the herdsmen terrorists.
“Nevertheless, we in the IPOB movement and family will never allow ceding or selling any part of our ancestral land to these dangerous Fulani terrorists and bandits for whatever reason. The Biafra region has no land for Fulanis for whatever purpose.
“Biafrans are farmers and pastoralists, too. Our lands are not sufficient for Biafrans to farm and rear livestock, let alone cede some to the dangerous terrorists. President Bola Tinubu could cede part of the South West land to his Fulani political Masters.
“Moreso, the north has the largest land mass. They can cede some to the Fulanis but definitely not in the South East and South-South.
“Fulani herdsmen and bandits must know that Biafra territory is a no-go area. We call on the people of the South West and Middle Belt to rise up and reject Tinubu’s and his Fulani Masters’ Fulanization agenda. Any region that allows Fulani occupation either by RUGA or ranching is doomed.”
