Anti-Grazing: PDP accuses FG, Ojudu, APC of supporting herdsmen planned invasion of Ekiti

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State has described the

yesterday's meeting of the Special Adviser to the President on

Political Matters and former Senator, representing Ekiti Central,

Senator Babafemi Ojudu with members of the Miyetti Allah Cattle

Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) as a confirmation that the

federal government and All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State

were in support of the invasion of the State by Fulani herdsmen.

The party, which expressed worry that Senator Ojudu could choose to

play politics with the lives and sources of livelihood of Ekiti

people, said; “With Ojudu's display of friendship with members of the

Miyetti Allah, despite the threat issued by the association issued

against the government and people of Ekiti State, the State and its

people must have seen who their real enemy is.”
State Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Mr Jackson Adebayo, said in a

statement issued in Ado-Ekiti on Wednesday that it was strange that

the same Senator Ojudu that kept silent when Fulani herdsmen killed

two Ekiti sons and injured several others in Oke Ako in Ikole Local

Government was now the one meeting members of Miyetti Allah to pacify

them over their alleged killing of their cows.
The party said it was curious that Ojudu and the APC led federal

government could be more concerned with the lives of cows than the

lives of Ekiti people.
The PDP said; “Ekiti people can now see that the federal government

and APC leaders in Ekiti are behind the threat by the Fulani herdsmen

to invade our State. If not, did Ojudu call the Miyetti Allah Cattle

Breeders Association to any meeting when their herdsmen murdered his

own people?
“Did the federal government and the APC issue common press statement

to condemn the killing of our people in Oke-Ako and destruction of

their sources of livelihood?
“Are cows now more important to Ojudu and his APC than Ekiti people

and their sources of livelihood?
“Obviously, by the silence of Ojudu and his party leaders when two

Ekiti sons were killed and several others injured by herdsmen, it is

clear that the threat issued by Miyetti Allah on Saturday has the

tacit support of the federal government?”
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