Ayo Adebanjo, leader of the Pan Yoruba socio-political
organisation, Afenifere, has said Nigeria is fast becoming a dictatorial and
tyrannical state under President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government.
Adebanjo said the recent pronouncements by the Buhari’s
government had shown that Nigeria is fast becoming a tyrannical and dictatorial
state.
Condemning Buhari’s review of Grazing Reserves and routes in
some states, Adebanjo insisted that the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, recently
assented by the President, has exposed his tyrannical and dictatorial nature.
In a statement by Afenifere’s National Publicity Secretary,
Jare Ajayi, Adebanjo said: “The dictatorial tendency of the President can be
seen in his insistence to go ahead with re-opening grazing routes and
establishment of ranches in the country when the preponderance of opinions
across the country is to do away with open grazing.
“We vividly recall that on February 9, 2021, the 19 states’
governors in the North at their meeting resolved that open grazing could no
longer be sustained. They resolved to encourage herders in their areas to go
into modern way of rearing cows which is ranching.
On May 11 of this same year, their counterparts in all the
17 states in the South met in Asaba, Delta state and placed a ban on open
grazing.
“This was backed up with legal instruments through the
enactment of an enabling law as passed by the respective Houses of Assembly as
enshrined In Section 4 and in Part 2 of the Second Schedule of the 1999
Constitution as amended.
“Also, against the wishes of the majority of Nigerians, the
President went ahead to sign the PIB into law despite the obvious injustice
contained therein and to which the attention of the government was called
beforehand.
“Same goes for the insistence on going for the
non-transmission of election results electronically when doing so was what the
majority of Nigerians wanted and asked for. Only a government with dictatorial
tendencies ‘behave in that manner.”
He accused the President of being hard on agitators while
going soft on bandits in the North.
“Still on the issue of tyranny, the socio-political
organisation submitted that this could be seen in how Buhari administration ‘is
hard on those agitating for a better life for their people while it is soft on
bandits, kidnappers and herders who are imperilling the lives of farmers,” he
said.
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