The 17 governors in the southern region are set to meet in Lagos State on Monday to discuss President Muhammadu Buhari’s order to the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, to dig up a 1963 gazzete on the recovery of grazing routes for herders.
The meeting which is coming eight weeks after their inaugural meeting in Asaba, Delta State, will also assess the decisions taken at the earlier meeting on the open grazing ban, restructuring, fiscal federalism and the call for state police.
The governors who would be hosted by Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, at the meeting which is scheduled to start by 10am, will have all the southern governors in attendance.
Those expected to grace the meeting include Oluwarotimi Akeredolu (Ondo), Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia), Emmanuel Udom (Akwa Ibom), Diri Duoye (Bayelsa), Willie Obiano (Anambra), Ben Ayade (Cross Rivers), Ifeanyi Okowa (Delta), and David Umahi (Ebonyi).
Others are Godwin Obaseki (Edo), Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti), Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu), Hope Uzodimma (Imo), Dapo Abiodun (Ogun), Adegboyega Oyetola (Osun), Oluwaseyi Makinde (Oyo), and Nyesom Wike (Rivers).
At the Asaba meeting, the governors had come up with a communiqué which banned open grazing as part of moves to address killings and kidnapping by herdsmen, but the President, in a recorded television interview in June, said he would mandate Malami to dig up a gazzete meant at recovering grazing routes.
