According to Afenifere, a pan-Yoruba socio-political organization, President Muhammadu Buhari’s acceptance of a review of the country’s 368 grazing areas across its 25 states was a dead-end before it even got off the ground.

It is believed that Buhari’s approval was an indicator that he was determined to carry out the Fulani plan for the country, according to the foremost Yoruba group.

An Afenifere statement issued by the General Secretary, Sola Ebiseni, stated that ensuring that herders are well-established in a territory should be the sole duty of governments of the states from where these herders originated.

“The present policy of the Buhari administration on Grazing Reserves is the implementation of the script by the Fulani intelligentsia,” he said in the statement.

“Every herder has a State of origin. Let the governments of the respective states make arrangements for settled life for them in the territory where the culture is fully appreciated.”

As part of the statement, Afenifere claimed that the recommendations of President Ibrahim Gambari’s Chief of Staff were a deceptive national solution to “orchestrated farmers/herders clashes.” The group claimed that the recommendations reeked of the odiferous stench of ethnic agenda for the settlement of Fulani in the ancestral lands of other ethnic nationalities.

The group Afenifere, while describing the move as a waste of taxpayers’ money, maintained that the concept of grazing reserves, “also known as Hurumi,” which was introduced during the colonial era and immediately after independence failed in the north, particularly in the Middle Belt provinces, despite what the group described as “a monolithic one-North government and permissive land-use regime.”

“For the umpteenth time, let the President be told that the constitution which he reveres relentlessly and the Land Use Act which derives equal force therefrom, extols the majesty of the people over their land.

“The current exercise is not only a waste of taxpayer’s money, it is a sweet pipe dream in a fool’s paradise,” he said.