How will you stop farmer-herder clashes from turning into bigger ethnic or religious conflicts?
I enforce strict rule of law, treating violent acts as crimes no matter who commits them, regardless of ethnicity. Federal agencies handle intelligence, states manage operational policing, and community authorities lead early-warning work. On the ground, I'll set up Community Peace and ADR Committees of traditional leaders, farmers, and herder associations to resolve land and crop disputes transparently, before they harden into wider ethnic or religious conflict.
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p. 5 Introduction Atiku Abubakar: Answers to questions from the public 2026-10-02 ›
Q24: How will you prevent farmer-herder disputes from becoming ethnic or religious conflicts, and what role should federal, state and community authorities play in resolving them? Answer: My policy enforces strict rule of law by treating violent crimes as criminal acts regardless of ethnicity, assigning intelligence to federal agencies, operational policing to states, and early- warning dispute resolution to community authorities. Q25: Kidnapping, terrorism and armed attacks have affected communities in places such as Zamfara, Borno and other parts of Nigeria for years. What will you do differently to make these communities safe? Answer: I am advocating for constitutional restructuring to allow State and Local Community Policing, expanding security force recruitment, deploying advanced satellite/drone surveillance, and conducting intelligence-driven counter-insurgency operations.