Cattle dealers: Stop campaign against new association, Salau tells aggrieved members

• Published date: 08 January 2023
• Publication title: Nigeria - The Nation

The erstwhile chairman of Cattle Dealers Association in Oyo State Alhaji Morufu Salau has dismissed claim by some aggrieved members that he was holding on to the group's chairmanship a decade after he was elected.

He said those who accused him of wrongdoing were the saboteurs who allegedly failed in many ways to bring him down over the years.

Salau maintained that those elements in the Cattle Dealers Association had embarked on the campaign of calumny, having heard that a new union Cattle breeders and dealers was greatly progressing and would hold a programme at Lekan Salami stadium Adamasingba, Ibadan on Sunday.

He described allegations levelled against him as untrue, claiming Busari Mojeed and Alhaji Dauda Adewole are not members of the association.

Salau said that they formed the union and agreed to do all within their capabilities in building a formidable union.

He noted that his former union, Cattle Dealers Association was led by interim leaders for many years, adding that election of leaders was not that paramount to them.

'In 2010, some people came that they want to form Oke-Ogun group. I did not discourage them but urged them to carry the state along on their activities, it was later I realised the...