THE current storm troubling the Ogun State chapter of the ruling All Progressives Congress is far from settling. With each passing day the intra-party crisis assumes a fresh dimension. In fact, the APC in the state has assumed the status as the hotbed of intra-party crisis in the South West and it is not in the least abetting.

Aminu blames the face-off between Fulani herdsmen and host communities in many parts of the country on government. He also says unless government fights Boko Haram as if in a war, insurgency in the country will not abate.

The Fulani are traditionally a nomadic, pastoralist trading people. They herd cattle, goats and sheep across the vast dry hinterlands of their domain, keeping somewhat separate from the local agricultural populations. They are the largest nomadic ethnic group in the world.

The relationship between Benue farmers and Fulani herders has remained a reference point for other communities in parts of the country where the herders and natives have been embroiled in bloody conflicts.

On March 24, 2014, a farmer in Bebi in Obanlikwu local government area of Cross River State shot dead a Fulani herdsman for allowing his cattle to graze at his cassava farm.