Don’t Impose Parochial Interests on Nigerians-Ohanaeze Ndigbo

The Apex Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has faulted President Mohammadu Buhari’s insistence on tracing abandoned grazing routes in the country.

Spokesman of the body, Chief Alex Chidozie Ogbonnia, described the action as being funny, adding that the President is backpedalling.
The group lamented that it could not understand why the President is eager to pull Nigeria backwards when other nations of the world are busy embracing changes and moving forward.

Ohanaeze added that Buhari’s decision is similar to revalidating the slave route in the country since it was dropped.
According to Ogbonnia, “It is funny, it is difficult to understand what he wants to do; to revalidate grazing routes, for what? It is like revalidating slave routes.

“Our President is backpedalling. We say that the world has changed. We have come to a critical juncture whereby we look back to assess any decision we take.
“We must look forward. Our President is backpedalling, which is unfortunate”.

In a related development, the Alaigbo Development Foundation, ADF, has called on President Buhari to talk of more serious issues that abound in the country adding that the president has no right to impose their parochial interests on the Nigerian Nation.

This was contained in a statement by its spokesman, Abia Onyike. The group noted that: “The APC Government of President Muhammadu Buhari should save this country from this Fulani hydra-headed problem of open-grazing or no open-grazing. There are more important issues to talk about.

“The President and his executive have no right to impose their parochial interests on the Nigerian Nation. “The National Assembly should oppose Buhari’s revanchist policies of Fulani triumphalism and save Nigeria from an impending holocaust.

“Buhari was elected President but that doesn’t make him the owner of Nigeria. If he continues with his dictatorial stunts, then the human rights community will drag him to court.
“Let the Southern Governors be fast in getting their Houses of Assembly to make laws on anti-open grazing and let us see what Buhari and his Attorney General would do.

“The best they can do is to go to court. Their lawlessness and unbridled dictatorship in defence of Fulani herdsmen have become a national tragedy. Nigerians must resist them”.