The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has thrown his support behind the ranching system, as solution to the near perennial herdsmen-farmers clashes being recorded in the country.
In a statement on Saturday, Tinubu said nomadic herders in the country must realise that they are fighting a “losing battle against modernity and climate change”, and so, must embrace a ‘sedentary’ mode of cattle-rearing.
He also lamented that those who should know better were the ones inciting farmers and herders to clash in the country.
The statement read: “The herder-farmer dispute has taken on acute and violent dimensions. It has cost too many innocent lives while destroying the property and livelihoods of many others. It has also aggravated ethnic sentiment and political tension.
“Despite the efforts of some of those in positions of high responsibility and public trust, the crisis has not significantly abated. Sadly, others who should know better have incited matters by tossing about hate-tainted statements that fall dangerously short of the leadership these people claim to provide. We all must get hold of our better selves to treat this matter with the sobriety it requires.”