{"id":35594,"date":"2021-01-23T18:46:39","date_gmt":"2021-01-23T18:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=35594"},"modified":"2021-01-23T16:43:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-23T16:43:00","slug":"acf-reacts-to-attack-on-herdsmen-by-yoruba-youths-warns-about-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/acf-reacts-to-attack-on-herdsmen-by-yoruba-youths-warns-about-civil-war","title":{"rendered":"ACF reacts to attack on herdsmen by Yoruba youths, warns about civil war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, has reacted to the attack on a Fulani community in the South West.<\/p>\n<p>According to ACF, such an act was a social upheaval that may destabilize the country, alleging that security agents were nowhere to be found when the attack was carried out.<\/p>\n<p>This was contained in a statement by the National Publicity Secretary of ACF, Emmanuel Yawe, entitled \u201cStop the Drift in the South West.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He recalled that the civil war in the 1960\u2019s started with attacks and counter-attacks like the Oyo attack on Fulani.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that, \u201cthis morning, we received reports of an attack by Yoruba Youths on Alhaji Saliu Abdulkadir, the Serki Fulani in Oyo State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the reports, he was attacked and driven out of his house, eleven cars and his house burnt with his family members now living in the bush.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are allegations that one Sunday Igboho, an agitator for the Oodua Republic and who issued an ultimatum giving Fulani people seven days to leave Yorubaland is the instigator of the attack.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most disturbing aspect of the attack is the allegation that the security agents who were earlier warned about its imminence stood by helplessly as the attack was carried out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ACF is worried about this trend and calls on the Federal and State Governments in the South West to move quickly to avert a social upheaval that may destabilize the whole country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe recall that the civil war in the 60\u2019s started with attacks and counter-attacks like this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A Yoruba activist, Sunday Igboho, on Saturday made gool his threat to expel Fulanis from Igangan in Oyo State.<\/p>\n<p>Igangan is a community in Ibarapa North Local Government Area.<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday, Igboho and his supporters stormed the area and gave the Fulani one week to leave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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