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The youth wing of the Christian Association of Nigeria (YOWICAN) has said President Muhammadu Buhari is more of a leader of Muslims rather than of all Nigerians. The group stated that the failure by Buhari to visit Plateau state where dozens of Christians were killed was a sign that the president was biased towards those of other religions. YOWICAN’s national president, Daniel Kadzai, in a statement in Adamawa on Thursday, October 20, alleged that the president is swift to address issues affecting Muslims but acts indifferently when Christians are affected. He said: “When 18 Muslims were killed in a reprisal attack in Taraba State, the Presidency, the military and the police hunted for the attackers. But when over 40 Christians were killed in Plateau State, the President traveled out of the country, three days after the incident.” “When a few Muslims were killed in Ibadan, the President was there with the police, swiftly making arrests. But when Fulani herdsmen killed Christians in Benue, the police did not arrest anyone. In Enugu, Edo, and the massacre in southern Kaduna State, the police could not find even one of the attackers.
“It is now very clear to we Christians why the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) can be tagged a terrorist group, but Fulani herdsmen and the Arewa Youth Forum cannot be tagged with any criminal identity.” Meanwhile, the military has denied the allegation of complicity in the reported killing of 29 persons, including women and children, in the Nkiedonwhro community of Plateau state. Umar Adam, the spokesperson of Operation Safe Haven,
made the denial known in an interview with Punch in Jos on Wednesday, October 18. Adams claimed that the Fulani herdsmen wounded by the troops were assisted to escape by their colleagues after the exchange of gunfire.
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