Gov El-Rufai Is Exporting Banditry To Southern Nigeria – Gov Akeredolu

The Governor of Ondo state, Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu, has poured venom on the Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, over his comments on the controversial anti-open grazing law, insisting that the law has come to stay.

The governor spoke in direct response to an earlier statement El-Rufai who described the anti-open grazing laws being signed by some of the southern governors as unrealistic.

Gov Akeredolu, who spoke via a statement titled Anti-Open Grazing by the Ondo state Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Mr. Donald Ojogo, said such a statement should not have come from a leader.

Akeredolu described El-Rufai’s attack on southern governors as devious, a hysteric ploy to externalise banditry’.

He insisted that the anti-open grazing law, especially in Ondo State, had come to stay.

“It shall be zealously guarded and conscionably deployed to protect all residents of Ondo State, notwithstanding their ethnic and religious biases.”

“From all indications, Governor 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,” he said.