Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ogun State has been taken to the cleaners by Buba Galadima.

He said, “Governor Akeredolu of Ondo State who calls himself a SAN is an educated illiterate. He shouldn’t be giving such orders in the first place. All Nigerians are free to live in any part of Nigeria.”

“It should be that any group of people living in any part of the country should be protected at all costs irrespective of their tribe, ethnicity or religion.”

“So also, the Fulani or any other tribe, be it in Ondo, they are under the protection of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”

“Who owns the forest reserves? Who gazetted the ownership of the forest reserve? It was gazetted by the then colonial masters. Once, it is gazetted, it is a Federal land and even if for instance, it is Ondo land, Nigerians are free to carry out businesses in any part of the country.”

“As regards the Land Use Act 1976, lands are vested in governors of various States to hold in trust for the people. And in Ondo, they are part of the people that the Act says the governor should hold the land in trust for.”

“You see, there are certain things you do; you play the law; you play morality, and you play unity. On this issue, Ondo State governor is supposed to play unity and it’s wrong to declare a certain ethnic group ‘persona non-grata’ in a certain area of your State.”

“If the people living in Ondo forest are security threat, they should be raided and neutralized rather than being evicted.”

“We now know why there was so much acrimony even from the people in Ondo, when Akeredolu was running for a second term in office. He has manifested himself so well that he is not a leader.”

“If what he meant was to have the Fulanis registered for easy identification which he later claimed, how would they be registered in their own country? I am not a Fulani and I am not talking for them. This kind of things should not happen.”

“Of course, it is legitimate for government to try to identify the actual people who are carrying out heinous crimes, particularly in the obvious infiltration of foreigners, but not to evict.”

“There is a difference between identification and eviction. What I said is that it is not right to evict anybody.”