Former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Bode George, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to provide leadership and unite Nigerians. He noted that the clashes between herdsmen and farmers, especially across the South West, can only be stopped with the ban on open grazing.
This came on a day some elders from the South West, advised governors in the region to make use of drones for aerial surveillance to check rising inter-ethnic in the affected states. Similarly, a coalition of Yoruba groups and organisations in the Diaspora, Yoruba One Voice, YOV, has expressed concerns over the breakdown of security in many zones.
It called for the massive deployment of security forces in the zone, especially Oyo State, where many innocent citizens were recently killed and displaced following an ethnic conflict in Shasha area of the state.
Bring back Nigeria from the brink Speaking a press briefing titled: ‘We Must Withdraw From The Brick’, George expressed worry that governments at all levels are fast losing grip on protecting lives and properties adding that this is not the time for ethnic or sectarian jingoism.
He said: “This is the time that President Muhammadu Buhari should demonstrate a rallying unifying leadership to bring all our people together. Surely, this is not the time for ethnic or sectarian jingoism. “This is the time for healing.
This is the time to mend the broken places and rectify the pervasive wrongs. Our people have been living together in peace and harmony for more than 100 years even before the colonialists imposed the rule of gunpowder.
“The widening spread of banditry, the reckless shedding of innocent blood, the bitter murderous clashes between farmers and herdsmen, the loose brigandage, have virtually made all corners of our society insecure, vulnerable to the rule of the cudgel and machete.