Daily Trust
The Coalition of Northern Groups has said that the North made a mistake in 2015 as the people it trusted with power had isolated the region politically, economically and socially.
The spokesperson for the group, Abdul-Azeez Sulieman while speaking at the sensitisation and awareness conference organised by CNG on Wednesday in Kaduna decried that the once potent and progressive region is begging for a place in the nation’s future political arrangement.
Sulieman said, “The North has been abandoned to a critical security situation with its widowed women, children orphaned, youths maimed and killed and people displaced in 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.”
He assured that the 2023 election will be special because the only thing that will truly matter to citizens is not which party or which candidate controls the government in future, but whether the government is controlled by the people…
