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PRESIDENT BUHARI'S SOUTH EAST CHIEF CAMPAIGNER WARNS IMN AGAINST PROTEST IN FCT

Afnews Editor

Jul 26, 2019

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Friends of Mohammadu Buhari in Diaspora headed by its president Chamberlain Adiaso has cautioned the Islamic Movement in Nigeria also known as shiites against continued invasion of the Federal Capital Territory Abuja in protest of their detained leader Ibrahim El-zakzaky.

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President of the group Adiaso who said this at a press conference held in London United Kingdom on Friday kicked against the regular protests carried out by the Islamic sect in the FCT as he stressed that the FCT was a secular cosmopolitan city and the seat of power in the country adding that bloody and violent protests in a place like that was inadvertently trying the patience of the president.

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The All Progressives Congress APC stalwart who is also the Chairman Presidential Support Committee South East commended President Muhammadu Buhari for what he described as his ability to exercise restraint in the face of extreme provocation by the IMN as he warned the Islamic sect not to mistake the president's calm disposition for weakness stressing that they were gradually overstepping the boundaries ordinarily acceptable within the confines of the constitution in the guise of religious freedom.

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The APC Chieftain also described as haters of democracy those kicking against the RUGA projects of the Federal government stressing that the plan was a well thought out plan by the Nigerian government to check the activities of Fulani herdsmen as well curb the rising cases of incessant Farmer/Herders clashes.

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He maintained that the RUGA initiative has been in existence for long as he stressed that Umuahia the capital of Abia state where he hails from had always had a mini RUGA settlement as well as the one at Lokpanta where neighbors within and outside came to get cow maintaining that most of the cattle in the southeast were owned by business men of the southeast extraction.

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