The National Secretary, Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Saleh Alhassan, says his association is worried about the possibility that that if the Amotekun security outfit is permitted to work, it could end up being a fiasco for the nation.
Alhassan who was a visitor on Channels Television's Sunrise Daily on Tuesday, compared the activity to the Oodua Peoples Congress (APC) which he guaranteed has the historical backdrop of grievous violations and killings.
"We are apprehensive supposing that they don't tame this beast at the beginning time, it will be a genuine fiasco for the nation," he said.He additionally depicted the activity as a "danger to vote based system".
Talking further, he blamed those requiring the creation for the security outfit of wanting to dislodge the herders in the Yoruba-talking states.
"For us, Amotekun, the Yoruba innate state army is perhaps the best risk to vote based system we currently have in place.You can't engage an ethnic local army that has a rough wrongdoing.
"Basically what you have as Amotekun is OPC that have a background marked by ethnic violations and killings.And the defenders of Amotekun have not concealed who their objectives are.They have reliably said their objective is to uproot the herders from the Southwest," Alhassan expressed.
His remarks come two weeks after Operation Amotekun was propelled by the governors of South-western states, as a feature of a coordinated way to deal with battle wrongdoing in the locale.
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"The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as revised) has set up the Army, Navy and Airforce, including the Police and different various paramilitary associations with the end goal of the protection of Nigeria," an announcement by the Special Assistant, Media and Public Relations (Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice), Dr. Umar Jibrilu Gwandu, said.