Nationnewslead reports that Tension has gripped residents of Ondo and other South West states, as the ultimatum given herders to vacate forest reserves in Ondo State by Governor Rotimi Aderedolu expires today.
The tension is accentuated by the overwhelming support given the governor and Yoruba ‘freedom fighter,’ Sunday Adeyemo, aka Igboho, by groups such groups as Agbekoya and Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, which have actually threatened fire and brimestone should anything happen to the ‘freedom fighter.’
The Inspec tor General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, had reportedly ordered Igboho’s arrest, following the crisis at Ibarapa area of Oyo State weekend.
Consequently, the Presidency has brokered a parley between the South-West governors and the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN, in a bid to find a lasting solution to the crisis in the region occasioned by clashes between herdsmen and farmers and calm frayed nerves.
Nationnewslead assembled that the meeting, scheduled to hold today in Akure, Ondo State, will address the seven-day ultimatum given to herdsmen to vacate the state government’s forest reserves which ends today.
A top government source in one of the South-West states said: “The Presidency has been disturbed with the turn of events in the South-West and has secretly directed the leadership of Miyetti Allah to hold an urgent meeting with governors of the region.”
The source noted that the Presidency noticed the determination and insistence of Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State to enforce the seven-day ultimatum, and had to design a way to appeal to him and the South-West governors before the ultimatum ends.
The meeting, the source disclosed to NNL correspondent, “was organised between the South-West governors and Miyetti Allah in a bid to stave off a major conflict with herders occupying the South-West region.”
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