Asaba Declaration: Southern govs resist Senate’s anti-restructuring stance
LEKE BAIYEWU, ADELANI ADEPEGBA, JESUSEGUN ALAGBE, SAM OLATUNJI and DENNIS NAKU
Published 16 May 2021
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LEKE BAIYEWU, ADELANI ADEPEGBA, JESUSEGUN ALAGBE, SAM OLATUNJI and DENNIS NAKU
Published 16 May 2021
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The Chairman of the South-South Governors’ Forum and Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, on Saturday, pushed back on the anti-restructuring comments by the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, and other critics of the resolutions reached by the Southern Governors’ Forum during last Tuesday’s meeting.
Okowa spoke on behalf of 16 other governors from the Southern zone of the country who he hosted in Asaba, Delta State capital.
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The Chairman of the South-South Governors’ Forum and Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, on Saturday, pushed back on the anti-restructuring comments by the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, and other critics of the resolutions reached by the Southern Governors’ Forum during last Tuesday’s meeting.
Okowa spoke on behalf of 16 other governors from the Southern zone of the country who he hosted in Asaba, Delta State capital.
This is as Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, also, on Saturday, said the decisions reached by the Southern governors, including the demand for restructuring, were irrevocable.
Seventeen Southern governors, who jettisoned their party affiliations, had met to discuss urgent national issues and reached some resolutions, which are now referred to as the Asaba Declaration.
Southern states to submit anti-grazing bills to state assemblies
Published 13 May 2021
Indications have it that the Southern Governors’ Forum has directed state houses of assembly in the South to enact law backing the ban on open grazing.
The PUNCH reported that governors of the Southern region met in Asaba, the Delta State capital on Tuesday during which they came up with the ban on open grazing.
The Chairman of South-South Governors’ Forum and Governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa, said that every state would enact its law to enforce the ban.
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Fayemi, Wike, Umahi and Okowa and Makinde during the Southern governors meeting on insecurity on Tuesday, May 11
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.
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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.