President of the Nigerian Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan, on Saturday, pointed the finger of guilt at the South West Governors, saying they were complicit in the killings in Sasha Market in Ibadan, Oyo State.
According to Lawan, the governors were also responsible for the violence and attacks against the northerners in the South West region.
Lawan spoke in an interview with BBC Hausa Service, which was monitored and reported by Vanguard newspapers.
Lawan reportedly attributed the violence to the latest call for the eviction of Fulani herders out of Southwestern states.
He said that the utterances by some Southwest governors were responsible for the killings in Sasha Market in Ibadan, Oyo State and other violence against northerners in the region.
The President of the Senate said: “Leadership failures in the region caused what happened in Oyo State and other things that kept happening in the southwestern states.
“Some utterances by some governors also went a long way in inciting the citizens to take up arms against other ethnic groups settling in their states.
“The governors’ utterances emboldened the criminals to unleash violence against the northerners.”
Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State had, last month, issued a seven-day quit notice to Fulani herdsmen operating illegally in the state’s forest reserves.
Apart from ejecting the herdsmen, the governor also banned underage grazing, night grazing, and cattle movement within the cities and on highways.
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