Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, has criticized his counterpart in Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, over his comment on anti-open grazing law. El-Rufai had described the anti-open grazing laws being signed by some of the southern governors as unrealistic.

But Akeredolu, in a statement issued by the state Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Donald Ojogo, said such an utterance should not have come from a leader.

The statement was titled, ‘Anti-open grazing: El-Rufai’s attack on southern governors devious, a hysteric ploy to externalise banditry’.

Akeredolu reiterated that the anti-open grazing law shall be zealously guarded and conscionably deployed to protect all residents of Ondo State, notwithstanding their ethnic and religious biases.

The statement said from all indications, Governor Nasir El-Rufai, if he was properly quoted and his views not misrepresented, is struggling hard to export banditry to the South under an expressed opinion that is laced with mischief.