Southern Governors Ban On Open Grazing: PDP decries Miyetti Allah's call for secession
....Says the group right to ask for Buhari's resignation
Published by Ojaomonews
James Ọjà, Ado-Ekiti
May 24th, 2021.
The opposition Peoples' Democratic Party, PDP has condemned the recent call by the Bauchi State Chapter of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association (MACBAN) for secession saying it was uncalled for.
According to a viral media report credited to Miyetti Allah's chairman, Sadiq Ibrahim, the southern governors' ban of open grazing was a clarion call for secession.
"This is a simple calculation" he said. "We are heading for secession. The rulers are no longer interested in the people. If some people are banned from open grazing, then there is nothing. Fulani people should move out from there. It is very simple"
In a related development, the MACBAN leader took a swipe at President Muhammadu Buhari stressing that the President lacks the capacity to govern the country.
His words; "The President is there as figure head. He doesn't know what he's doing; he is not controlling anybody. In our country now, everybody does what he feels likes as the country is already moving apart. Where's the Federal Goverment when some governors can meet and take decisions that are against the Constitution?" He retorted.
On security challenge, Sadiq maintained that the solution to the country's security challenge is for the President to step aside and for Nigerians to put their heads together and elect a credible President in 2023.
However, In a press release from the office of Zonal Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Chief Sanya Atofarati on Sunday, the PDP stated that the MACBAN leader erred by advocating for the country's break up saying that the move was uncalled for.
"People of southern Nigeria who had been victims of incessant attacks on their farmlands by Fulani herdsmen believed in a restructured Nigeria which will guarantee equal rights for all citizens against the present dysfunctional and lopsided Federal Goverment.
"The ban on open grazing by governors of the southern Nigeria should not be misconstrued as attempt to balkanize the country but a wake up call to address the deep rooted injustice in the country.
"When the governors of southern Nigeria placed a ban on open grazing in the region, their goal was driven by patriotic zeal and desire to put to an end to the incessant threats to lives and property of the people of the region by Fulani herdsmen"
Atofarati opines that the issue of open grazing is a settled matter as most governors of the north had openly embraced it.
"It is too late for MACBAN to drag the nation back with secession plot because of ban on movement of cows when most of the northern governors have openly embraced ranching"
The statement however, commended the northern group for calling on President Buhari to step aside.
"The MACBAN leader should be commended for speaking truth to power in his remark that President Buhari should step aside for a credible leader to run the affairs of our great nation". He said
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