A group of leaders in the North rose from a meeting in Kaduna on Friday and passed a vote of no confidence in President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration for its failure to effectively tackle the prevailing security challenges in the country.
The group said the Federal Government had failed to protect its citizens, adding that it would form a formidable force to ensure that the presidency returned to the North in 2015.
In a communiqué, which was read out to journalists at the end of the meeting by a leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria, Dr. Usman Bugaje, the Northern leaders blamed the current security crisis in the region on the government’s inability to provide basic social services and to guarantee freedom and rights of the citizens.
The statement said the activities of the violent Islamic sect known as Boko Haram, as well as other security challenges, had impacted negatively on the socio-economic, political and religious life of the people of the region.
“Economic growth and development, commerce and trade in formal and informal sectors of the Northern states are being stifled with multiplier effects on the larger national and African sub-regional economies,” it said.
Regarding the 2015 presidential election, the Northern leaders said they had resolved to bring individuals and groups working in different directions under one umbrella in readiness for the 2015 presidential race.
“All the disparate groups working in different directions, but all with the aim of promoting northern interests within a greater Nigeria under one platform,” they said, pledging to create a strong and united platform that would address the current security crisis and the politics of the North.
The communiqué read in part, “The weakening nature and perhaps the failure of the Nigerian State to protect lives and property as well as its inability to provide basic social services and guarantee freedom and rights of citizens cumulatively accounts for the current state of siege in which the North now find itself.
“The systematic erosion of cherished values of honesty, tolerance and integrity that were once the hallmark of public service in the North have resulted in bad governance, disregard for the rule of law and general decadence.
“Social indicators and statistics for all human development perspectives show the dismal crises in education, health, water and sanitation services thereby placing the region far below its counterparts in the country
“The general conduct of the Joint Task Force and how the fundamental rights of the citizens of the North are being violated in clear breach of the rules of engagement. It is expected that the JTF will strictly abide by the professional terms of engagement in the interest of peace.”
A former Head of State, Gen. Abdulasalami Abubakar (retd.), former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, former Governor Ibrahim Shekarau of Kano State and Senator Adamu Aliero were in attendance at the meeting.
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Our northern leaders are the once destroying the north by them selfs, cos how can you have a male child and can not take care of him? All the northern leaders should put their house in other, cos they have promise before the elections to make the conutry ungovernable for the goverment of GEJ, so they should not blame the FGN for what is happening in the north.
ReplyDeleteThese so called "nothern leaders" are the very ones responsible for the insecurity in the north, they had already decided to make Nigerian ungovernable.
ReplyDeleteThey are now just trying to shift the blame to GEJ.
They should instead speak to their people on how to train their children, and imsms and clerics from spreading violence
A job is not finished until the paperwork is done. When you defecate, you must clean your chocolate canal with tissue paper. Likewise, when you breed a woman, you must be prepared to educate the child (paperwork). Education makes us rational and enables us discern right from wrong.
ReplyDeleteWho do you all expect to clean your Tuwo shinkaffa arse holes? Southerners? Jokers!
baseless allegation
ReplyDeleteI concur,you are 100% right,they are bunch of useless old brains,blaming th FG for insecurity and poverty in the north when they had the opportunity during there own time and they could not fixed it.Northers alway fill they are the only people who can rule this country,they have these dominaring attitude. Time will tell.
ReplyDeleteShame on the Northern so called leaders. Have GEJ provide social amenities for other parts of Nigeria leaving the North alone? The North have no regard for their male children. Only educated or enlightened ones send their children to School.What is the role of their Governors? Hand in Hand collect money from NigerDelta in Abuja monthly to feed? We better have regional governments in 2015. Each region takes care of it's resources and remits some % to the FG. North can islamize and BOKOHARAM can rule them there. No problem with the rest of the country.Period
ReplyDeleteWhat promise will the Nothern candidate that will be brandished before the entire country make with regards to BOKO HARAM? Will he say BH will be a thing of the past or will be turned into a local police force? Either way will make the so called Nothern leaders and thier candidtate look ridiculous going by thier alleged cause of BH. Accepting that BH is an organised crime foisted by the myopic and short sighted northern leaders against GEJ is a wiser option. Will the northern candidate be able to attract investors to the north, educate their youths, creat employment and most importantly restore outsiders' confidence to the NORTH again? Can he/she do all these in eight years with resourses from the Niger Delta whose kith and kins were murdered in cold blood by the same people??? Their best option is to support GEJ and within the remaining 4 years make amends. In 30-40 years from now, the north will realise what they did because of one man occupying Aso Villa.
ReplyDeleteAre you all complaining now? Aren't you all that sold the north for pee-nut? That were the results of egunje! egunje!! egunje!!!
ReplyDeleteThose ignorant fools think every northerner is a BH member ignoring the fact that the Muslims in the North suffer more in the hands if BH members.
ReplyDeleteThis hypocrisy will not solve the problems even if you split Nigeria into 100 countries. Look at what is happening in Southern Sudan.
I pray that those who destroyed the either from within or without will be punished accordingly. The North doesn't require the support of rascals like Dokubo Asari to survive.People like him can go ahead and lead Nigeria to disintegration if he thinks that way Niger Deelta will be the most developed country in the world and the North the poorest. Bloody greedy idiots.