The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, said that if retaining Presidency was a panacea to people’s problems, the North would have become the Netherlands of Africa.
Ohanaeze Publicity Secretary Chief Alex Ogbonnia, who spoke to Punch on Tuesday, said the North had produced several leaders, even to the very recent, Muhammadu Buhari, yet its problems were on the increase.
He stated, “It is most regrettable that the Northern leaders are undisturbed that Nigeria is fast collapsing under their leadership. The forum fails to recognise that at the moment, Nigeria is confronted with the most precarious omens full of uncertainty, doubts, insecurity and bloodshed.
“The Chairman of the Northern States Governors Forum, Governor Simon Lalong can attest that the people of Plateau State have never in history witnessed the number of deaths that has taken place under his watch as governor. The banditry in Zamfara, Katsina, Kaduna and Jigawa states is terrifying. Benue State has turned into a killing field. The states of Yobe and Borno are worst hit by the menace of Boko Haram.
“Several schools in the North cannot open because of kidnappers and millions of children are on the street as beggars. The Nigerian currency has lost its value. Unemployment has skyrocketed; and Nigeria has become the poverty capital of the world and the northern governors, the Sultan and the Emirs instead of seeking solution to Nigerian problems were busy strategising on how to retain power in 2023. This is most unconscionable, to say the least.”
Ohanaeze also express disappointment over “the unholy manoeuvre and alliances by the members of the Peoples Democratic Party to zone the presidential seat for the 2023 general election to the Northern Nigeria.”
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