The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has charged the North not to repeat the political mistake it made in 2015 by voting in power an administration that isolated the region.
The CNG spokesperson, Abdul-Azeez Sulieman, stated this at a CNG conference in Kaduna State chapter with the theme; politics of sentiments, a critical factor militating development and Democracy in Nigeria.
He said, “the North made a mistake in 2015 as the people it trusted with power had inadvertently isolated the region politically, economically and socially”.
He also lamented that the once potent and progressive region is today begging not for food, but for a place in the nation’s future political arrangement.
According to him, “The North has been abandoned to a critical security situation with its widowed women, children orphaned, youths maimed and killed and people displaced by the thousands. Politicians and leaders we have elected have prospered, but the bulk of us are left jobless, homeless, helpless and hopeless. The establishment protected itself, but not the citizens of our country. And while these elites celebrate with their families in world capitals, there has been nothing to celebrate for struggling families all across our land.
“Indeed, the North made a mistake in 2015 so that the deliberate commission or omission of the people we trusted with power has inadvertently isolated the region politically, economically and socially as a result of which, the once portent and progressive region is today begging not only for food, but for a place in the nation’s future political arrangement.”
