Yakubu Dogara, speaker of the house
of representatives, has accused northern elders of being silent in the face of
the insecurity in the region.
The speaker said while the elders
in Borno and other northern states criticised former President Goodluck
Jonathan over killings, they have kept mum under the current administration.
Dogara said this on Thursday
while speaking at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) campaign in Nasarawa
state.
He said the elders’ silence could
be taken as “enabling the poor management of security in the country,
especially in the north.”
“The 2019 general election is not
about President Muhammadu Buhari, it’s not about Atiku Abubakar, but I said it
is about you who are gathered here and it will be a referendum on insecurity
and hunger in this land”, he said.
“On the issue of insecurity, all
of us know what is happening in Borno and, unfortunately too, between Abuja and
Kaduna, as well as in Zamfara, Katsina, Nassarawa, Benue, Plateau and even
Sokoto states.
“The issue is this, when this
thing was going on under Jonathan, we had Borno elders always speaking. Where
are the Borno elders now? Where are the leaders of northern Nigeria now that
this problem has become endemic? What are they saying now?
“Are we not guilty of what we
allow? Are we not responsible for the killings by our failure to say that
enough is enough and demand a of right that President Buhari puts an end to
this or leave if he can’t?
“The truth is that if we don’t
rise up to the endemic challenges now, sooner than later, if things continue
this way, we are not going to have a country.”
The speaker also condemned
“sycophants who elevate some public office holders to the status of God” and
called on Nigerians to “rise up and rescue the country from the clutches of
insecurity.”
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