Members of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association, also known as MACBAN, have pleaded with President Bola Tinubu not to overlook them in the forthcoming appointments and have even offered to work as sweepers in Aso Rock, the seat of the Federal Government.
The call was important, according to Allhaji Gidado Siddikki, the Southeast zonal chairman of MACBAN, because cattle breeders all around the nation prayed and cast their votes for the President on February 25.
“We are demanding for appointments from Tinubu’s government. Even if it is as office sweepers, we are okay with it. All we want is for us to be part of the government at the centre.
“During the election, to my knowledge, my people voted for President Tinubu because his predecessor, President Muhammadu Buhari, told my people to vote for him and they all did so.
“We prayed, supported, endorsed and did everything politically possible to ensure his victory. So he should not abandoned us.
“In the appointments the President has made so far, no Miyetti Allah member is among, including the recently-screened ministerial nominees.
“In addition to the N8,000 proposed palliative and other benefits of the government, he should appoint us too, even as sweepers at the Presidential Villa”, Gidado said.
