When Mr. Egba, his son and nephew were killed in his vehicle by herders on their way to his farm in the forest reserve along Obiaruku-Benin Road, Obiaruku, Delta State an urgent sense of the need to study and review the relationship between the farmer and the herder arose intensely in the researcher the victims being relations in native Ezionum kingdom in Ukwuani Local Government Area Delta State Nigeria. This paper which adopts the doctrinal method re-examines the various theoretical and ideological foundations upon which the conflictual relationship between the two agricultural groups can be understood in the face of recent violent evidence and pre-existing literature on the subject. It finds that while technological advances made in the agricultural sub-sector have recently brought the two groups into more intimate co-existence and collision, no serious attempt has been made by the State to curtail the violent bent which the herders have taken by colluding with Islamic militants to wage a pseudo war of land conquest over ethnic communities. The extent to which the forest and game reserves have been occupied as hideouts and fortresses of the herders and their militant groups all over the country only supports the claim by this paper that the herders have taken after the Niger Delta militants and see the ethnic farmers as prey to be eliminated if possible, kidnapped for ransom and terrorized out of the grazing spaces all over the country and this has appeared to be the manifest policy of the Buhari administration to pacify the Fulani for winning a national election in 2015 after a third failed attempt.