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Franking:
On whose land? Don't rob Peter to pay Paul .... what's happening in Plateau state should teach everyone a lesson. Give the Fulani an inch of your land under whatever guise and in a few years they'll be chasing you out. Tread with caution.

That is why you should practice it in your land.
Don't leave it for outsiders

And the modern ranch shouldn't be managed by the fulanis, else, another trouble (insecurity/kidnapping or land grabbing) is loading.

The people you're trying to please are come headed and always resist change. Even if you provide funds to them to set up ranching, they will still move their cattles out of the so-called ranching and trespass on peoples farm

Where is the southern Senators Forum to stand against this intent to grab land for the Fulani

It seems LegendHero was wrong about south killing ruga after all

Oh wait. We have a southern president and the man proposing it in the senate is a southerner

When I said nothing like south y'all thought I was capping right

Same thing that was strongly rejected under Buhari is being proposed after he left. Bubu must be laughing in fulfude with his cows at the foolishness of southerners now

Aboki go agree?

No problem if this will bring peace especially between farmers and herdsmen which will encourage food security however, VATS, LEVIES or TAXES must be applied.

ogugwa1992:
https://dailytrust.com/senate-adopts-dicksons-call-for-modern-ranching/

The right to freedom of movement will not legitimise trespass on the farmland of another citizen.

The Senate on Tuesday unanimously adopted Senator Henry Seriake Dickson's position that the Federal Government should provide funds for the establishment of ranches across the country in collaboration with states, local government areas, and businesses.

To all those Biafran separatists, please learn a lesson from this.

Get one of your Senators to propose a referendum or secession bill for Ala Igbo. You might be surprised that it will end up being unanimously adopted like this one.

No bloodshed, no sit at home inconvenience.

Of course I personally don't want Ndigbo to leave Nigeria but if they want to, ciao. Despite different passports, we can, should and will still be friends.

This is a good one. Kudos to the senate

Time will tell,so Niger state,borno state, kogi state and oyo state that are all bigger than south east is not enough for government to build ranches for the fulani business men but want to build it in all local government areas of the country.The plan to give out all lands in Nigeria to fulani herdsmen will not work.We Igbos have no land for rancher.

strangest:
The government should also support spare parts dealers...

Nonsense country

Nobody is dashing them the money or the land, they'll pay back the loan.

And for supporting the business, FG, state and LGs will generate tax from the Fulanis.

Saao:
cattle dey suffer ke? Una just dey talk like oyibo, animal na meat, animal no dey suffer, na human dey suffer

Cattle suppose dey inside ranch dey chop dey wait for slaughter day but una go make am waka from Chad to Lagos before una kill am. Shey no b suffer b dat.

7upnigeria:
Nobody is dashing them the money or the land, they'll pay back the loan.

And for supporting the business, FG, state and LGs will generate tax from the Fulanis.

Experience is out best teacher

ogugwa1992:
https://dailytrust.com/senate-adopts-dicksons-call-for-modern-ranching/

This is one very stewpid adoption. Why will the FG fund a private business wholly and it seems this special interest is only to the North?

Sen. Dickson has he ever told the FG to fund Agriculture for those in Bayelsa State and in the South South region?
Why don't he asked the FG to gift those into cassava planting, yam, rice, poultry, etc, modern farming equipments and even tractors, irrigation systems to help aid their farm crops growth.
Most often times these southern senators are of no good to their region. Have you heard or seen where the northern senators put up a bill that will work in the interest of the Southern region!?

QuestLINKsPrpty:
Isn't ranching better than grazing? 🤷

That's what's been argued, that ranching is better and more profitable and requires a lot more knowledge than grazing does.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKhzHyX-9_s?si=rK0tQUJKV2cHGth2

strangest:
Experience is out best teacher

Honestly, its d reason why am also against allowing more IGBOS into yorubaland. When your hosts have become too accommodating, you start misbehaving. No igbo man or Yorubaman can misbehave in the North but the moment EVERY TOM, DICK AND HARRY cones into yorubaland, they start claiming "NO MAN'S LAND"

Kukutente23:

Where is the southern Senators Forum to stand against this intent to grab land for the Fulani

It seems LegendHero was wrong about south killing ruga after all

Oh wait. We have a southern president and the man proposing it in the senate is a southerner

When I said nothing like south y'all thought I was capping right

Same thing that was strongly rejected under Buhari is being proposed after he left. Bubu must be laughing in fulfude with his cows at the foolishness of southerners now

Yes South mud Ruga during Buhari period. Nigeria is a very dicey country, sometimes it is who is doing the act and not necessarily the act itself.

They will allow ranching during Tinubu period because not accepting ranching earlier was because they believe the Fulani are going to grab land since Buhari was in power and there was mass killings by Fulani herdsmen then.

Most decisions in Nigeria are more political than logical.

LegendHero:
Yes South mud Ruga during Buhari period. Nigeria is a very dicey country, sometimes it is who is doing the act and not necessarily the act itself.

They will allow ranching during Tinubu period because not accepting ranching earlier was because they believe the Fulani are going to grab land since Buhari was in power and there was mass killings by Fulani herdsmen then.

Most decisions in Nigeria are more political than logical.

That is because our politicians especially the southern ones have no binding ideology or group interest
Like I told you then, there was never any ruga bill in the NASS. It was the Agric ministry that wanted to do ruga and Bubu suspended it when he saw that most governors were against it so, it was not south that killed or rejected ruga.
That said, if southerners really had any group interest, why will they oppose ruga under Buhari only to support it now with a bill self?
Don't forget it all started with Tinubu starting livestock ministry
Look at the north. They stood against PIB for 16 years and when they were ready to pass it, they passed it on their terms, getting the best out of it. Why can't the south for example pass ruga in such a way that South gets the upper hand on it?
By the time these blind southerners in power pass this bill, the next northern president will come and implement it to the letter and southerners will have no choice but to swallow it and move on.

Kukutente23:
That is because our politicians especially the southern ones have no binding ideology or group interest
Like I told you then, there was never any ruga bill in the NASS. It was the Agric ministry that wanted to do ruga and Bubu suspended it when he saw that most governors were against it so, it was not south that killed or rejected ruga.
That said, if southerners really had any group interest, why will they oppose ruga under Buhari only to support it now with a bill self?
Don't forget it all started with Tinubu starting livestock ministry
Look at the north. They stood against PIB for 16 years and when they were ready to pass it, they passed it on their terms, getting the best out of it. Why can't the south for example pass ruga in such a way that South gets the upper hand on it?
By the time these blind southerners in power pass this bill, the next northern president will come and implement it to the letter and southerners will have no choice but to swallow it and move on.

The southerners actually rejected the Water resource bill which many believed is RUGA in disguise. I remeber Ohaneze, Afenifere, the middle belt forum voicing out against it and we calling our NASS members to reject the bill totally.

Back to the topic, if we have a strong Southern president who don’t just pander, we would have passed the PIB bill and heaven won’t fall.

Ranching is a good thing, but because Buhari looked away while the Fulas wreaked havoc, it is justified for Southerners to reject the bill in its entirety. Now, Fula herdsmen activities have reduced, power changed hand, and if Tinubu can allow them pass the bill, there is enough time to consolidate things and let Southerners take charge of the business down south.

If the Northerner president come to change it and people suspect foul play, they will go against it again and make it hard for the president.

Let me tell you bro, North are not more powerful than the South. Na una just dey give them godlike status.

7upnigeria:
Honestly, its d reason why am also against allowing more IGBOS into yorubaland. When your hosts have become too accommodating, you start misbehaving. No igbo man or Yorubaman can misbehave in the North but the moment EVERY TOM, DICK AND HARRY cones into yorubaland, they start claiming "NO MAN'S LAND"

Jeez and you still sell your land to them and use it for Owambe

Way to go.If you must ranch,do it in your own region.I don't trust Fulani people.

LegendHero:
The southerners actually rejected the Water resource bill which many believed is RUGA in disguise. I remeber Ohaneze, Afenifere, the middle belt forum voicing out against it and we calling our NASS members to reject the bill totally.

Back to the topic, if we have a strong Southern president who don’t just pander, we would have passed the PIB bill and heaven won’t fall.

Ranching is a good thing, but because Buhari looked away while the Fulas wreaked havoc, it is justified for Southerners to reject the bill in its entirety. Now, Fula herdsmen activities have reduced, power changed hand, and if Tinubu can allow them pass the bill, there is enough time to consolidate things and let Southerners take charge of the business down south.

If the Northerner president come to change it and people suspect foul play, they will go against it again and make it hard for the president.

Let me tell you bro, North are not more powerful than the South. Na una just dey give them godlike status.

The Water resources bill was not Ruga in disguise. If you believed it to be so, that was your own confusion. The bill was rejected across states and not only the South. Which state will want to lose possibly the most fertile and tourist attraction parts of their states to FG? That's what led to the death of the Water resources bill and not any southern opposition.

Mind you, the bill was passed at the Hose of Reps that's headed by Gbaja while it was rejected in Lawan's senate based on a motion from a Senator from Benue. Both Lawan and the Benue senator are northerners. As you said, support for decisions are usually more political than rational.

Ranching is a good thing but ranching does not exist exclusively for cows. There are goats, pigs, poultry, horses, donkeys, camels etc that require ranching too. Benue passed a ranching law in 2019. The difference is that it ought to be a private business.

Govt has no business building ranches for herdsmen. I thought you guys were against subsidy and socialism. It doesn't matter whether it is Buhari or Tinubu, building ranches all over the country for herdsmen to occupy does not bode well for the South especially.

It seems you forgot that most of the herdsmen that were attacking people in the South were doing so under forceful occupation of the land of their hosts. Is that not what Dickson is proposing now through Tinubu's Ministry of Livestock?

I don't know what you mean by we did not have a strong Southern President. Do you know how many battles OBJ got involved in against Northerners? The North blocked the PIB. It was passed again by Gbaja in the House with all the pro-North clauses inserted there.

The present House Speaker from Kaduna is even refusing to present the tax reform bill to the House not to mention taking it for first reading. Why has your strong leader not forced him to read it on the floor of the House like Gbaja read the PIB? You think the North fear Tinubu or what?

The way you're writing makes you sound naive. How will Southerners take over cattle business in 8 years? The North have the numbers in both Houses. They hold the upper hand based on Nigeria's configuration especially in legislative matters.

Kukutente23:
The Water resources bill was not Ruga in disguise. If you believed it to be so, that was your own confusion. The bill was rejected across states and not only the South. Which state will want to lose possibly the most fertile and tourist attraction parts of their states to FG? That's what led to the death of the Water resources bill and not any southern opposition.

Mind you, the bill was passed at the Hose of Reps that's headed by Gbaja while it was rejected in Lawan's senate based on a motion from a Senator from Benue. Both Lawan and the Benue senator are northerners. As you said, support for decisions are usually more political than rational.

Ranching is a good thing but ranching does not exist exclusively for cows. There are goats, pigs, poultry, horses, donkeys, camels etc that require ranching too. Benue passed a ranching law in 2019. The difference is that it ought to be a private business.

Govt has no business building ranches for herdsmen. I thought you guys were against subsidy and socialism. It doesn't matter whether it is Buhari or Tinubu, building ranches all over the country for herdsmen to occupy does not bode well for the South especially.

It seems you forgot that most of the herdsmen that were attacking people in the South were doing so under forceful occupation of the land of their hosts. Is that not what Dickson is proposing now through Tinubu's Ministry of Livestock?

I don't know what you mean by we did not have a strong Southern President. Do you know how many battles OBJ got involved in against Northerners? The North blocked the PIB. It was passed again by Gbaja in the House with all the pro-North clauses inserted there.

The present House Speaker from Kaduna is even refusing to present the tax reform bill to the House not to mention taking it for first reading. Why has your strong leader not forced him to read it on the floor of the House like Gbaja read the PIB? You think the North fear Tinubu or what?

The way you're writing makes you sound naive. How will Southerners take over cattle business in 8 years? The North have the numbers in both Houses. They hold the upper hand based on Nigeria's configuration especially in legislative matters.

I don’t know where you get your own info, but any current person knows the talk in town was that “Water bill is RUGA in disguise”. Any policy, no matter how good or bad will be rejected by weird reason. Banking reform by Sanusi was seen as an agenda against the South, when in the real sense it is good.

Also, Obasanjo is a weak president. He is only strong when he wants to do anti-democratic nonsense and that’s majorly because eye never sharp well during those days. What strong stance has he ever taken to override Northern interest? shariah law, or what exactly?

You have to understand cause and effect. The major importance of ranching is that it will free up land for farmers and will give the government enough arsenal to quench herdsmen coz it will come with a stringent law of no grazing anywhere. That is the main law they are going to enforce, and with that you kill two bird with a stone.

See, if you want to treat the FK of a Fulani man with confined ranch, it is easy. Government can easily just demolish it if anything gas. Also, we have states that are doing ranching already like Ekiti. So if FG support ranching, then dammned be Ekiti if they allow Fulas to overtake it from them.

Tax bill will pass. Akpabio still spoke about it today. Stop working yourself up with your fear fear attitude towards the North. The North is not powerful than the South.

If South say we don’t want and speak with a voice, Nothing wey Northerners fit do and vice versa. When we wan do Amotekun, shey attorney general no talk say e no possible, why did it pass?

LegendHero:
I don’t know where you get your own info, but any current person knows the talk in town was that “Water bill is RUGA in disguise”. Any policy, no matter how good or bad will be rejected by weird reason. Banking reform by Sanusi was seen as an agenda against the South, when in the real sense it is good.

Also, Obasanjo is a weak president. He is only strong when he wants to do anti-democratic nonsense and that’s majorly because eye never sharp well during those days. What strong stance has he ever taken to override Northern interest? shariah law, or what exactly?

You have to understand cause and effect. The major importance of ranching is that it will free up land for farmers and will give the government enough arsenal to quench herdsmen coz it will come with a stringent law of no grazing anywhere. That is the main law they are going to enforce, and with that you kill two bird with a stone.

See, if you want to treat the FK of a Fulani man with confined ranch, it is easy. Government can easily just demolish it if anything gas. Also, we have states that are doing ranching already like Ekiti. So if FG support ranching, then dammned be Ekiti if they allow Fulas to overtake it from them.

Tax bill will pass. Akpabio still spoke about it today. Stop working yourself up with your fear fear attitude towards the North. The North is not powerful than the South.

If South say we don’t want and speak with a voice, Nothing wey Northerners fit do and vice versa. When we wan do Amotekun, shey attorney general no talk say e no possible, why did it pass?

You already captured it when you said decisions are usually political more than logical. I have not said Water bill was not seen as ruga in disguise. What I am pointing out to you is that it was not Ruga, had nothing to do with cows and ranching and most importantly was killed in the Senate led by a Northerner from a motion moved by a northern senator while it passed in the House led by a southerner.

That shows that South never killed the bill. The tax bill for example is being opposed by the north and we all know Ndume and Ningi led the onslaught against it in the Senate while it has not even been presented at the North led House.

The opposition for the Water bill came from states contiguous with Rivers Niger and Benue which are majorly northern states, as well as Lagos that hosts the Lagoon. Nowhere was cow mentioned in the bill. The suspicion arose because it gave rights of lands of about 10km I think to the Federal govt from the riverbeds. Also it confiscated the right of any state to harness the water entities without permission from the FG.

It is laughable to say OBJ was weak. That's the funniest thing I ever heard said against OBJ. Are you aware the North refused to vote for OBJ in his second term because almost all his appointees from the North were Northern Christians and his insistence on probing Abacha and his northern cohorts including Bagudu present Minister of Budget?

Tinubu who gave fulani a whole ministry is strong according to you but not OBJ who refused to budge to their demands which stalled the PIB throughout his tenure? Why has the tax bills been stepped down? When will the Senate public hearing take place? When will it be read on the floor of the House?

Are you saying there are no cows grazing in Ekiti as at today? Are you even aware the Ekiti anti-grazing law was passed by Fayose and the ranch in question is owned by Promasidor and not the state govt? How many Fulani cow ranches exist in Ekiti today? The ranch you're referring to is filled with imported cows!!

The fact still remain that if the ranches being built are to be operated by the present herdsmen in Nigeria, then what you have is still ruga. The solution is to mandate Fulani herders to buy land and operate their own ranches with support from FG which they've flatly rejected.

They want land and ranches FOC. That's what Dickson and Tinubu's ministry is proposing. So if it happens, don't blame any state for what is purely the FG's action. No be today southern politicians have been bending over to please the north. Even Tinubu pleased the north with his Muslim Muslim ticket and his livestock Ministry.

Kukutente23:
You already captured it when you said decisions are usually political more than logical. I have not said Water bill was not seen as ruga in disguise. What I am pointing out to you is that it was not Ruga, had nothing to do with cows and ranching and most importantly was killed in the Senate led by a Northerner from a motion moved by a northern senator while it passed in the House led by a southerner.

That shows that South never killed the bill. The tax bill for example is being opposed by the north and we all know Ndume and Ningi led the onslaught against it in the Senate while it has not even been presented at the North led House.

The opposition for the Water bill came from states contiguous with Rivers Niger and Benue which are majorly northern states, as well as Lagos that hosts the Lagoon. Nowhere was cow mentioned in the bill. The suspicion arose because it gave rights of lands of about 10km I think to the Federal govt from the riverbeds. Also it confiscated the right of any state to harness the water entities without permission from the FG.

It is laughable to say OBJ was weak. That's the funniest thing I ever heard said against OBJ. Are you aware the North refused to vote for OBJ in his second term because almost all his appointees from the North were Northern Christians and his insistence on probing Abacha and his northern cohorts including Bagudu present Minister of Budget?

Tinubu who gave fulani a whole ministry is strong according to you but not OBJ who refused to budge to their demands which stalled the PIB throughout his tenure? Why has the tax bills been stepped down? When will the Senate public hearing take place? When will it be read on the floor of the House?

Are you saying there are no cows grazing in Ekiti as at today? Are you even aware the Ekiti anti-grazing law was passed by Fayose and the ranch in question is owned by Promasidor and not the state govt? How many Fulani cow ranches exist in Ekiti today? The ranch you're referring to is filled with imported cows!!

The fact still remain that if the ranches being built are to be operated by the present herdsmen in Nigeria, then what you have is still ruga. The solution is to mandate Fulani herders to buy land and operate their own ranches with support from FG which they've flatly rejected.

They want land and ranches FOC. That's what Dickson and Tinubu's ministry is proposing. So if it happens, don't blame any state for what is purely the FG's action. No be today southern politicians have been bending over to please the north. Even Tinubu pleased the north with his Muslim Muslim ticket and his livestock Ministry.

I don’t understand what you are saying. Water bill was rejected by the South and that is the truth. Speaker and senate president mean nothing as politician will still
Play their politics either way. ALL South and middlebelt leaders of thought rejected it and it even divided the senate. Read this
https://punchng.com/buharis-bill-on-water-resources-splits-northern-southern-senators/?amp

OBJ is a weak president who panders too much to the North. No be him dey kneel beg Atiku for second term? Core North have always voted themselves and only 1999 was the anomaly coz two Yoruba men were on the ballot. 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019, and even 2023, core North voted for Northerners.

Cows are still grazing and that’s because FG don’t have the will to ban open grazing yet. States can ban open grazing, the federal police will still be there to protect the right of the herdsmen. You can only have maximum result if both state and federal ban it and enforce it maximally.

Why will the ranch be operated by the herdsmen? So you mean if FG give each states billions of money to establish ranch, Oyo Ogun Osun Lagos Ekiti and Ondo will go and call Garuba to head the ranch and put all Fulas there as the workers? Or Anambra Abia and Bayelsa will pick Haruna for such?

Lastly, Tinubu did not please the North with Muslim-Muslim, it is the only ticket that can win him presidency. That’s exactly what Abiola did because as a Yoruba Muslim, you are already handicapped in Nigeria. If not that Yoruba people don’t see religious divide, it would have been very hard for any Muslim Yoruba to be president of Nigeria. It is politics.

In the game of politics, you play to win.

BUHARI SHOULD HAVE BUILT THE RANCHES FOR THE 36 CONSTITUTIONAL STATES FROM THE
MONEY RECOVERED FROM ABACHA LOOTS.

LegendHero:
I don’t understand what you are saying. Water bill was rejected by the South and that is the truth. Speaker and senate president mean nothing as politician will still
Play their politics either way. ALL South and middlebelt leaders of thought rejected it and it even divided the senate. Read this
https://punchng.com/buharis-bill-on-water-resources-splits-northern-southern-senators/?amp

OBJ is a weak president who panders too much to the North. No be him dey kneel beg Atiku for second term? Core North have always voted themselves and only 1999 was the anomaly coz two Yoruba men were on the ballot. 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019, and even 2023, core North voted for Northerners.

Cows are still grazing and that’s because FG don’t have the will to ban open grazing yet. States can ban open grazing, the federal police will still be there to protect the right of the herdsmen. You can only have maximum result if both state and federal ban it and enforce it maximally.

Why will the ranch be operated by the herdsmen? So you mean if FG give each states billions of money to establish ranch, Oyo Ogun Osun Lagos Ekiti and Ondo will go and call Garuba to head the ranch and put all Fulas there as the workers? Or Anambra Abia and Bayelsa will pick Haruna for such?

Lastly, Tinubu did not please the North with Muslim-Muslim, it is the only ticket that can win him presidency. That’s exactly what Abiola did because as a Yoruba Muslim, you are already handicapped in Nigeria. If not that Yoruba people don’t see religious divide, it would have been very hard for any Muslim Yoruba to be president of Nigeria. It is politics.

In the game of politics, you play to win.

I'm happy you brought a 2018 link. See below quotes from the bill which was the position of the southern senators and show me where they mentioned Ruga or cows. Mind you, Ruga came up in 2019 after Buhari secured his second term and your link is 2018. The leaders of thought rejected the bill claiming it was ruga in 2020 not 2018. Read Akpabio's thoughts below and show me where he mentioned cow or ruga. You can see his argument was on the river bed and the lands around the rivers.

Akpabio, Bayelsa, Ashafa, Adeola oppose bill

[b]Opposing the bill, the Minority Leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio (PDP, Akwa Ibom North-West), who raised issues against Clause 3, warned against making a law that would lead to the Federal Government taking over the landed areas of riverine communities, especially communities where the water bodies dry off.

“When they dry off, they become residential. So, it will cause a lot of confusion. We really need to be careful,” he noted. Akpabio made reference to Lake Chad which used to have over 25,000 kilometres of water but had dried up to about 5,000 kilometres. He said it meant that the community now had 20,000 kilometres for farming and other activities, stressing that it would have been out of the reach of the people if the government had possessed the bank.

He said, “The kind of river we are talking about should be clearly defined. If we want to say that all waters in Nigeria must be legislated upon by the Federal Government, then we will cause a lot of confusion because there are a lot of communities that depend on small rivers to survive.

“If the banks now belong to the Federal Government, we are doing what we are not supposed to do; we are centralising power at the centre, we are not devolving powers. We are bringing Nigeria back to a unitary state. We are now making sure that even communities are now dispossessed of their land. Some of those places are natural elongation of the land.”

Senator Emmanuel Paulker (PDP, Bayelsa-Central) backed Akpabio, noting that there was a need to define what a bank is.

He also pointed out that the Federal Government was about to take over resources in the states at a time when Nigerians were calling for devolution of powers.

He said, “Most of these rivers dry off, they are seasonal rivers. If we say banks are owned by the Federal Government, definitely it will create a lot of problems. We should look at it closely before we pass it. Most of the waters are drying off, so how do we define the banks?” [/b]

How does kneeling for Atiku to get his party's ticket make Obasanjo pander to the North. Was Atiku holding the ticket to favour the north or himself? The north voted Tinubu in 2023. He won NW and NE. Atiku won only NE and SS. Tinubu pandered to them by accepting Muslim Muslim just as MKO also pandered to the north. MKO's Vice was even chosen for him by the Northern establishment in SDP.

What is FG waiting for to ban open grazing? I thought Tinubu is strong where OBJ is weak. He should ban it already. Meanwhile FG has no jurisdiction to ban open grazing as land is under the purview of the state. It is the states that can ban it and many have but the federal police keep making such bans ineffective. Tinubu should order Egbetokun to give teeth to the bans.

Whether in Oyo, Bayelse, Ebonyi or Kogi, as long as the ranch is built by the FG for cow ranching, it will be controlled by the Fulani. Why are you knowingly burying your head in the sand. It is just like FG proposing to give all car mechs in Nigeria grant of N10m. We all know regardless of states, the major beneficiaries will be Yorubas. The fulani are the herders. FG is not looking to give the states money anyway. The ranches will be built by FG on land provided by the states for the cattle rearers in their domain. That's the plan. Go and find out very well.

If the only way Tinubu can win is through pleasing the north, why do you now say north does not have any power? Mind you, Tinubu had no choice in his particular case because the APC had positioned itself as a northern Muslim party. From 2015 to 2019, it had successfully alienated the Christian northerners and further pushed them away with its Muslim Muslim ticket which was the machinations of folks like Ganduje and Elrufai. By its posturing, it also alienated the SE and SS.

The only way to win without the core north in an election is to have the backing of the SW, SE, SS and the northern Christians. That's how OBJ won in 2003 and GEJ in 2011 before SW and some NC broke off in 2015. That was impossible for APC and Tinubu to achieve which led them to no choice but Muslim Muslim

budaatum:
No one listened when Buhari proposed this.

I may be wrong but his proposal was not keenly accepted especially across the Southern parts due to what most considered as policy flaws- the feelers were he was making it mandatory for States to carve out land for this, the arms bearing and safety issue was not properly addressed. Also, his government was viewed as sentimentally aligned to the north and the south didn't see how it woukd truly favour them. Plus the spate of killings by BH and herdsmen (attacking farmers in the SW) was just still too fresh for a lot of southerners to align themselves with it. It was just the right idea, wrong approach and wrong timing I guess.

vivaciousvivi:
I may be wrong but his proposal was not keenly accepted especially across the Southern parts due to what most considered as policy flaws- the feelers were he was making it mandatory for States to carve out land for this, the arms bearing and safety issue was not properly addressed. Also, his government was viewed as sentimentally aligned to the north and the south didn't see how it woukd truly favour them. Plus the spate of killings by BH and herdsmen (attacking farmers in the SW) was just still too fresh for a lot of southerners to align themselves with it. It was just the right idea, wrong approach and wrong timing I guess.

His policy was not accepted because people were ignorant tribal bigots! Unfortunately many thought he was giving their land to fulani when in fact, ranch would have killed off fulani herdsmen because you need learning they don't have to ranch.

budaatum:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOOPUKvG208

Livestock Transformation Development Plan

The Fear of Fulani Herdsmen and Cows!

Cattle Ranch 101