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Southern governors’ resolutions at their meeting on Tuesday generated more nationwide reactions on Wednesday.
The northern sociopolitical group, the Arewa Consultative Forum, told The PUNCH that some of those advocating restructuring were bent on the disintegration of the country.
The group, however, supported the decision of the governors to ban open grazing of cattle.
But the Southern Senators and members of the House of Representatives commended the governors’ call for restructuring and the ban on open grazing.
The governors, had at their meeting in Asaba, the Delta State capital, banned open grazing and called on the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to take bold steps in restructuring the country.
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Views: Visits 8 …woo their northern counterparts for support …ask those kicking to desist …mull legislative back-ups By Levinus Nwabughiogu-Abuja House of Representatives members from the 17 Southern States have thrown their weight behind the region’s Governors in their quest for restructuring, true federalism and permanent ban on open grazing. It will be recalled that the governors met in Asaba, Delta State capital on Tuesday where they offered a 10-point solutions to the lingering insecurity and other social and economic malaises that had befallen the country. In a statement signed by 22 lawmakers on behalf of their Forum on Wednesday in Abuja, the members warned those opposing the resolutions to desist from doing such.
House Of Representatives Members From Southern Nigeria Back Governors On Restructuring, Banning On Open Grazing, Others
They stated that the demands by the 17 governors from the Southern part of the country, which include devolution of power and creation of state policing will stabilise the country.
by SaharaReporters, New York
May 12, 2021
Members of the House of Representatives from Southern Nigeria have thrown their weight behind the resolution of the Southern Governors’ Forum over the prohibition of open grazing and other national issues following their meeting on Tuesday.
The Southern federal lawmakers said the resolutions of their governors would address the penetration of bandits and terrorists into their area, which has incapacitated social and economic lives of the people in the South.