More Groups Back Southern Govs’ Resolution

De Erudite Communications
May 14, 2021

Speaking at different issues and events, a former Oyo State Governor Rashidi Ladoja; Lagos State House of Assembly Speaker Mudashiru Obasa; Northern Minority caucus in the House of Representatives and the Southeast Igbo Youth Stakeholders back the governors’ resolution.

Sources revealed;
Ex-governor Ladoja said he believes that if the ban on open grazing is implemented, the rising insecurity in the country would, to a large extent, be curbed.

He also argued that open grazing was no longer sustainable as a practice, adding that the government needed to do more in terms of implementing the ban by the governors.

In the same vein, in Lagos State, Speaker Obasa advised President Muhammadu Buhari to act on the requests made by the governors to end insecurity in the country.

According to him, implementation of the requests would help in moving the country forward.

Meanwhile, Obasa also expressed belief that the country would survive the security and economic challenges facing it and come out stronger.

Minority lawmakers in the House of Representatives from the 19 northern states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) said addressing open grazing, restructuring, and other issues raised by the Southern governors remained the only solution to the worsening insecurity in the country.

In the other hand, the lawmakers, therefore, called on President Buhari to immediately commence a process of national dialogue and restructuring as a way of addressing the general discontent among ethnic nationalities in the country.

They also asked the President to address the nation on the contending issues raised by the governors and supported by their lawmakers in the National Assembly.
Similarly, the South East Igbo Youth Stakeholders also supported the Southern governors but advised them to come up with an appropriate legal framework to implement their resolutions.

The group which called on the Federal Government to de-proscribe the Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB) as a terrorist organisation, also urged Southeast governors to liaise with the relevant stakeholders especially the youth, to arrest security challenges in the zone.

The group comprises Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth wing, the National Youth Council of Nigeria (southeast), the Nigerian Youth Congress (Southeast) and the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS, Southeast).