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Ohanaeze Calls Uzodinma ‘Confirmed Saboteur’, Threatens Sanctions Against Imo Governor

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For being the primary to brazenly reject the decision of the 17 southern governors to enact anti-open grazing laws of their respective states, the apex Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo on Friday referred to as Governor Hope Uzodinma “a confirmed saboteur” who will “absolutely style the retribution of God and wrath of the folks”.

The Imo governor serving underneath the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) had declared that there isn’t a legislation forbidding open grazing by cattle rearers within the South-East state, including that his authorities was making an attempt to manage grazing actions by collaboration between the farmers and herders.

Naija Information recollects that the 17 governors of the southern states had in a gathering held in Lagos on July 5, 2021, urged states within the area to make sure that the laws in opposition to open grazing of cattle was put in place on or earlier than September 1.

Following the governors’ decision, Delta, Osun, Ondo, Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom, Rivers, and Enugu state governments had moved to enact anti-open grazing legal guidelines. That is because the anti-open grazing legislation was already operational in Ogun, Abia, Oyo, Ekiti, and Ebonyi states previous to the decision of the governors.

However Uzodinma, who spoke with newsmen on Wednesday after assembly with President Muhammadu Buhari on the Presidential Villa, Abuja, stated: “I don’t have any legislation in Imo State for anti-grazing.

“What we have now finished is that we’re regulating grazing actions in Imo State underneath a partnership between our farmers and herders. They’ve signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in my workplace and agreed to work together. And each events are going about their companies with out interfering or inflicting any grievance or anger to one another.”

In its response, Ohanaeze disclosed that this place of Uzodinma has attracted scourge of hatred, plagues, and curses on his authorities, including that Ndigbo would declare him the primary enemy of their race.

The Secretary-Common of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, in a press release, stated, “Our suspicion had been bolstered with the continued absence of Governor Hope Uzodinma within the conferences of Southern Governors in Asaba and Lagos, which was intentional and premeditated to ambush the resolutions of the Southern Governors, and he won’t ever escape the venom of Ndigbo.

“He will certainly style the retribution of God and wrath of the folks as a confirmed saboteur and it will function a warning to any Igbo Governor that may observe such resolution. Such individual won’t ever escape the venomous actions of the folks.”

Ohanaeze went on to advise Governor Uzodinma “to indicate repentance and rescind as he can’t afford to face the results of this resolution.

“Uzodinma is now the instrument our detractors is utilizing to destabilize Southern Nigeria. If he continues, he will probably be excommunicated from any Igbo gathering and ceremonies from 1st September 2021.”