Following the press statement by presidential spokesperson, Garba Shehu, dismissing the decision of the 17 Southern Governors to ban open grazing in their states as having “questionable legality,” the Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, SAN, has issued a response to Shehu on behalf of the Southern Governors.
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‘Mr Garba Shehu just
released a press statement purporting to represent the position of President
Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, on the farmer-herder “clashes” and what he termed as
“Deep Rooted Solutions to the Herdsmen Attacks”.
‘He also attributed a unilateral decision to the President
who “clears the way for ranching and revival of forest reserves” as part of the
“permanent solution to the frequent clashes between them, as well as the
associated problem of the gun-wielding “killer-herdsmen”.
‘Anyone who has been following the utterances of this man, as well as his fellow travelers on the self-deluding, mendacious but potentially dangerous itinerary to anarchy cannot but conclude that he works, assiduously, for extraneous interests whose game plan stands at variance with the expectations of genuine lovers of peaceful coexistence among all the peoples whose ethnic extractions are indigenous to Nigeria.