Northern youths on Thursday criticised
their elders over what they described as calls for the nation’s
Presidency to return to the region in 2015.
The youth, under the aegis of the Arewa
Peoples Patriotic Front, said rather than calling for Presidency to
return to the North, the elders should saddle themselves with the
responsibility of putting their house in order.
National Chairman, APPF, Mr. Sunday
Ibrahim, while addressing a press conference in Kaduna on Thursday,
accused the elders for being responsible of the sundry problems
confronting the region.
He said, “Prof. Ango Abdullahi and his
team demanded that power must return to the North in 2015, but we want
to know which of the North he is referring to. Not long ago, he was in
this country when we were told that there were two norths (sic.); the
North and the Core North. We have seen and are still seeing the effect
of that balkanisation of the North.”
The coalition of organisations in the
North – the Arewa Consultative Forum, Northern Elders’ Forum, Arewa
Reawakening Forum, Arewa Research and Development Project, Northern
Union and the Code Group – led by a former Vice-Chancellor of the Ahmadu
Bello University, Zaria, Prof. Ango Abdullahi, had penultimate Tuesday
said the Presidency must return to the region in 2015.
Abdullahi, who spoke on behalf of the
group, had said, “The North is determined and is insistent that the
leadership of the country will rotate to it in 2015, and I am making
that very clear to you. On behalf of all of us—ACF is in front (because
is has been the oldest group), and the Middle Belt Forum and our other
groups that have been very active and strong; all of us are likely to
have this very tough and common agenda.”
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I pray even more educated Muslim northerners will speak up in unison and deal with this unwise elders of the North who insist that the whole Norh remain backwards while enriching their pockets for their own selfish gains.
ReplyDeleteIt's a sad case really.
What they practic in the North is CAST system, (where your Birth Determines your position in Life,Royal N non Royal Family). When they call North they are referring to Core North and not The Middle Belt.. That is why the Middle belt will never agree with the Core North because they are Marginalize.
ReplyDeleteNorth means Muslim Hausa and |Fulani, We know!
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