Southern Governors Meet Thursday In Enugu

By Ayodele Oni

Another round of the meeting of 17 Governors of Southern Nigeria will hold on Thursday, in Enugu State.

The meeting will be their third meeting this year.  Delta state hosted the first, followed by Lagos State.

The meeting, to be hosted by Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, holds at the Government House, Enugu.

The meeting is expected to review steps taken by each of the Governors on the anti- open grazing law among other issues.

Few among the Southern States have signed into Law the Bill banning open grazing with Ondo, Lagos, Enugu and Osun states blazing the trail.

The first and second meetings of the Southern Governors, deliberated on Regional and National issues among which was their insistence that the next President of the country should come from the South.

It was learnt that at the Lagos meeting, the Governors had set September deadline for the implementation of open grazing ban.

Previous resolutions of the Southern Governors had drawn mixed reactions from the Federal Government and their counterparts from the North.