Fulani socio-cultural association, Miyetti Allah has said it will soon decide who to support between the incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
National President of the organisation, Alhaji Bello Abdullahi Bodejo, and National Secretary, Engr. Saleh Alhassan, said yesterday at a press briefing in Abuja that the group would decide on their preferred candidate soon.
Bodejo who had joined other leaders to mobilise members of Miyetti Allah to register and vote in the 2019 election said, “We have ensured that our members are massively registered in the elections and should exercise their franchise in a peaceful manner wherever they would cast their votes.”
He added that, “We expect our members to fully turn out to cast their votes. We are happy that the stereotyping of Fulani herdsmen has gone down due to the fact that the two perceived leading presidential candidates are Fulani.
“The polity has benefited from this development as we now have campaigns being issue-based and not on ethnicity, religion or other primordial sentiments. We believe this is healthy for the nation.”
On who to support in the 2019 Presidential election, Bodejo said, “On who we are going to support, we are still weighing what the two perceived leading candidates would bring on the table, what they have in stock for the pastoralists that are facing numerous challenges across the country and when we finished our assessments, we will invite the world to know our direction. But for now, we are asking our members to get ready with their PVCs and wait where we can negotiate the best for them, especially on their economic livelihood.
“We would look at the agenda that the two or any of the presidential candidates has for our members.”
