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We won’t allow you import bandits into South, Akeredolu talks tough to El-Rufai
By Rasaq Adebayo
Ondo State Governor Rotimi Akeredolu has fired back at the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai for condemning anti-open grazing law in some southern states.
El-Rufai had condemned the anti-open grazing laws being signed into law by some of the southern governors, saying it was unrealistic.
Reacting to this, Akeredolu, in a statement by the state Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Mr Donald Ojogo, expressed disappointment in the Kaduna State governor.
In the statement titled, ‘Anti-open grazing: El-Rufai’s attack on southern governors devious, a hysteric ploy to externalise banditry’, Akeredolu said “there is no going back on the anti-open grazing law in Ondo State”, adding that “it shall be zealously guarded and conscionably deployed to protect all residents of Ondo State, notwithstanding their ethnic and religious biases.”
The statement reads: “From all indications, Governor’s Nasir El-Rufai, if he was properly quoted and his views not misrepresented, is struggling hard to export banditry to the South under an expressed opinion that is laced with mischief.
“Perhaps, it is apt to state clearly that the likes of Governor El-Rufai are already in a hysteric ‘mode’ of escalating and indeed, externalising banditry, especially as the military onslaught against criminal elements and other terror variants suffices in the North.
“For emphasis, any such comment like that of the Kaduna Governor, if indeed he made that statement, merely seeks to encourage anarchy under the guise of resentment of a law by affected stakeholders.”
