The Coalition of Northern Groups,
CNG, on Wednesday accused the South-West of attempting to overthrow President
Muhammadu Buhari through the RevolutionNow protest called by former
presidential candidate of African Action Congress, AAC, Omoyele Sowore.
CNG claimed that the
RevolutionNow was a SouthWest conspiracy, hence Northerners refused to take
part in the protest.
Recall that the Department of
State Services, DSS, had arrested Sowore over the weekend for calling for the
protest.
Despite his arrest, the protest
was held in some states across the country.
However, spokesperson of CNG,
Malam Abdul-Azeez Sulaiman in a statement explained that the group’s decision
not to be part of the RevolutionNow marches across the nation was because “the
North will not be part of any international conspiracy supported by South
Westerners to destabilize the country.”
The statement reads: “It is quite
unfortunate that the South-West which has been the single major beneficiary of
the Buhari administration should also be in the forefront of efforts to
discredit and bring him down by all means. This can be seen in the manner in
which the bulk of political, cultural, religious and traditional leadership is
standing solidly against the government with its open support for call for
violent overthrow of the Buhari government by the #Revolutionow organizers.
“In particular, such individual
beneficiaries of the government as Bola Tinubu, Fashola, Fayemi, Aregbesola,
and others largely from the South-West were nowhere to be seen when their
people and the southern-based media ignited tensions over the government’s Ruga
initiative.
“These same beneficiaries appear
today in implicit support of the proposed insurrection by maintaining a
conspiratorial neutrality while other southern influencers like Wole Soyinka,
Bisi Akande, Falana, etc explicitly back the organizers”, the northern
coalition stated.
The group also called for an end
to the Yoruba, Northern alliance.
It added: “We also wish to ask
the president if in all honesty he still considers the South Western players as
true friends who are genuinely desirous of his success. He should ask himself
if the treatment he is receiving from them is worth the attention he had given
the South West which involved colliding with his northern brethren to the point
of elevating the status of June 12 as appeasement.
“To the entire northern leaders
and elite, we categorically say that the current political alignment with the
South-West is not paying and it never will.
“The vital task at this point is
for the northern political leadership to renegotiate its current alliance with
the South-West which has never been North’s political ally The alliance is
already turning out to be unhealthy.
“We are calling on the northern
elders and leaders to review the region’s position by realigning with our
traditional political friends which had served the whole nation for decades
before the coming of this unholy and unprofitable union with the South-Western
block.
“This has become necessary with
the way the South-West is going about the current friendship by being more
openly antagonistic to northern interests even while they are the major
beneficiaries of the Buhari administration. They, at the slightest of
pretenses, openly denigrate the North, its people, its leadership and culture
which must not be allowed to continue.
“The CNG, therefore, calls on the
current leadership of the Northern Elders Forum under Professor Ango Abdullahi
to mobilize relevant stakeholders towards bringing an end to the political
partnership with the South-West and embracing the North’s initial political
allies”.
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