…Says insurrection against elite not foreclosed
Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence, Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar III, has advised the present administration to take urgent steps to mitigate the sufferings of Nigerians.
The Sultan made the appeal yesterday, while speaking at the National Conference on Livestock Reform and Mitigation of Associated Conflicts between Herders and Farmers, which was held in Abuja.
Referring to the challenges thrown up by the Central Bank of Nigeria, (CBN) Naira Swap policy Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar said that insurrection against the government should not be dismissed with a wave of the hand.
According to him, “Let’s keep politics aside. The issues of development, especially for the common man, should be prioritised. These people that God Almighty gave leadership over, one day, God forbid, could rise up against us”.
Speaking on the subject of the discourse, the growing animosity between farmers and herders, the Sultan of Sokoto advised that both sides of the divide should imbibe the spirit of give and take for lasting peace.
Governor of Kano State and initiator of the Conference, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, declared that the best option and lasting peace to the conflict was the adoption of ranching.
In his welcome address, former INEC Chairman and Chairman, Organising Committee of the National Conference on Livestock Reforms and Mitigation of Associated Conflicts, Professor Attahiru Jega, said the agenda of the conference was “to generate ideas that would contribute to addressing an acute national problem: the relative underdevelopment of the Nigerian Livestock sector and the perpetual crises and conflicts associated with it“.
