Aminu Adam, director of operations of the Coalition of
Northern Groups (CNG), says the police arrested Nastura Sharif for allegedly
defaming Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman.
The police arrested Sharif, board of trustees chairman of
CNG, after the protest against the widespread insecurity in the north.
On Tuesday, some members of the group had protested in
Katsina, calling on Aminu Masari, the governor, to resign if he could not
guarantee the security of lives.
They also demanded action from the government of President
Muhammadu Buhari.
Adam told reporters on Wednesday that the police also
accused Sharif of unlawful gathering.
“The police accused him of unlawful gathering and for
defaming the character of Femi Adesina in our counter statement against
Adesina’s attack on Ango Abdullahi, convener of the Northern Elders Forum
(NEF), who had earlier in a statement on Sunday, condemned the incessant
killings in the north,” he said.
The NEF had expressed concern over the high rate of
insecurity in the north, accusing Buhari of failing to address the insecurity
in the region.
But in his reaction, Adesina described the group as “a mere
irritant”.
“It is a quasi-organization that boasts of no credible
membership, and its leader is akin to a General without troops,” the spokesman
wrote.
In form of a rebuttal, the CNG issued a statement signed by
Abdul-Azeez Suleiman, its spokesman, defending the NEF.
Suleiman said the “coalition is not surprised that Mr.
Adesina stopped at childish insults because he has nothing with which he can
defend the Presidency against the position of the NEF…”
“Typical of the crowd around the old general, Adesina could
not exempt the administration of the facts laid out by the northern elders
beyond irresponsible, clumsy and indecorous gaffes devoid of the true essence
of the matter,” the statement read.
“Adesina, in a desperate haste to defend the indefensible,
only succeeded in exposing himself as an ethnic bigot with an endemic hatred
for other non-yoruba ethnicities to the point of rejoicing over the killings of
innocent northerners due to the incapacity of the government he serves.”
Adam said the response to Adesina formed the basis upon
which the police detained Sharif.
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