The ex-president Olusegun
Obasanjo aired his thoughts in Abuja on Tuesday at an agriculture seminar in
Abuja organised by Lift Above Poverty Organisation (LAPO).
Olusegun Obasanjo has said
he gets angry whenever people blame Buhari for not making comments concerning the
destruction done by herdsmen, and other national issues.
He said…………
“And some of the words that
have been coming out from our leaders, particularly from state governors, are
not helpful; they are not helpful. This issue is not a federal issue and
another thing I don’t like about it is that when you talk of Fulani herdsmen,
people talk of the President. “Now because the President of Nigeria is a Fulani
man, then you would expect him to jump up and say this one is condemned and all
that, no. That is not his job. And when people make comments like this, it
annoys me.
They say the President
hasn’t said anything about this, that he used to be the patron of something…,
but I believe that the ranching thing failed because the states and the local
governments failed to do what they ought to have done.” He, who questioned what
had happened to the grazing reserves and routes? explicted that during the
colonial era, certain areas were reserved as grazing zones in most parts of the
North.
“I need to state that it is
the responsibility of local governments to take care of them. Now, because
states should have even done a lot better, they haven’t, and then when you have
cattle rustling, herdsmen and farmers’ conflict, you try to make it a national
issue. But it is not really a national issue.
“For me, the herdsmen are
entitled to be able to look after their animals but they are not entitled to
destroy the crops of the rural farmers, it is unacceptable. “
Is only one Buhari that is why we have division of labour
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