President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, criticized the governor's representing the Southern region of Nigeria for placing a ban on open grazing for herdsmen, saying it's a show of power.

Buhari said this in a statement released by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, insisting that the governors’ resolution during their meeting, which held on May 11 in Asaba, Delta State, is a violation of the constitutional right of Nigerians to live and do business in any part of the country, irrespective of such citizen’s state of origin.

According to Garba Shehu, the Asaba Declaration, which moved to place a ban on open grazing “and other acts of politicking were intended by its signatories to demonstrate their power.

“It is very clear that there was no solution offered from their resolutions to the herder-farmer clashes that have been continuing in our country for generations,

“It is equally true that their announcement is of questionable legality, given the Constitutional right of all Nigerians to enjoy the same rights and freedoms within every one of our 36 states (and FCT) -regardless of the state of their birth or residence.

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Expectedly, the southern governors cannot reply the dullard.

Does Buhari know something like Concurrent legislative powers is enshrined in our 1999 military constitution that's being refurbished to look like a peoples framework.
We are being led by those who have clearly lost touch of present stance of reality.