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President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday met with governors from the northern part of Nigeria as the country seeks ways to contain its numerous security challenges. The governors were led to the meeting by the Plateau State Governor and the Chairman of the Northern Governors’ Forum, Simon Lalong, and were also joined by the Chief of Staff to the President, Prof Ibrahim Gambari during the meeting held at the President Villa, Abuja. Part of the leaders’ resolution is to work with the Federal Government to address insecurity. Photo: Presidency
According to the governors, the meeting was convened to review the region’s security situation and seek ways to address it. ....
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Northern Governors Forum says that it will intervene in the rift between two of its governors, Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, and his Benue State counterpart, Samuel Ortom. It would be recalled that the two governors have engaged in a rift over the issue of open grazing and Fulani herdsmen carrying AK-47 for protection. Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, confirmed this development while speaking with newsmen, at the National Secretariat of the All Progressives Congress, in Abuja, on Thursday. Responding to a question, he said, “I just left Kaduna, we had a meeting of the Northern State Governors, Bauchi State Governor, Benue Governor was there, it will be sorted out, it could be differences in option. It is not fundamental. ....
Nasir El-Rufai: Northern governors committed to ending farmers-herders clashes February 25, 2021 The Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, has said that northern governors are committed to putting an end to the farmers/herders clashes by coming up with a permanent solution that will put the issue to bed. The clashes between the farmers and herders and the activities of killer herdsmen have increased the ethnic tension in the country of late. The Governor of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed, and his counterpart from Benue State, Samuel Ortom, had been locked in a battle due to the positions taken by the governors on the issue. ....
By Adedayo Akinwale The Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, has said that northern governors are committed to putting an end to the farmers/herders clashes by coming up with a permanent solution that will put the issue to bed. The clashes between the farmers and herders and the activities of killer herdsmen have increased the ethnic tension in the country of late. The Governor of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed, and his counterpart from Benue State, Samuel Ortom, had been locked in a battle due to the positions taken by the governors on the issue. Mohammed claimed that Fulani herdsmen went about with AK-47 rifles for self-defence, and also accused Ortom of fuelling a bad media campaign against the Fulanis and worsening the herders/farmers crisis in the country. ....