Key northern leaders on Thursday converged on Zaria, in Kaduna State, and reviewed the security situation in Nigeria, with a damning verdict that the federal government has not done enough to checkmate the spate of killings and destruction of property across the land. Cross section of Party Faithfuls during the meeting of the PDP Northern Elders and Leaders Caucus at the Adamu Maina Waziri Hall, Ajuji Hotel, Apo, Abuja.

The elders also frowned at what they considered as unjustified silence of the administration over rising threats to the north in particular and some parts of Nigeria by bandits, herdsmen, kidnappers, armed robbers and other gangs causing mayhem without any appropriate response from the security agencies. In a communiqué issued at the end of the meeting and signed by the Convener of the NEF, Prof Ango Abdullahi, the elders questioned the undue priority given by the government to politics over human lives, blaming it on what it calls ‘ weak political will and monumental political corruption’. Part of the communiqué said, “Today, the north still lives under horrendous Boko Haram threats, a situation, which has been aggravated by threats of banditry, kidnappings, armed robbery, marauding youth gangs, herders and farmers mini-wars and seemingly overwhelmed or indifferent governments.

“Agriculture, our pride and national economic comparative advantage, the greatest employer of labour and leading contributor to GDP is in ruins as animal husbandry and crop and roots farming are in the throes of war and damage. “Our rural folks live in perpetual fear of attacks from sundry terrorist assassins without any reprieve. Our major highways and transportation systems are being abandoned as they have become death traps. “Should the Nigerian people continue to run and hide from criminals under an administration that has enjoyed and received support especially from Northern Nigerians that it cannot address their existential and developmental challenges? The elders queried.

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/04/northern-elders-attack-buhari-over-worsening-insecurity-quality-of-lives/

So how do we engage the govt?... are we back to writing articles and letters all over..

The greatest pain is that we have set precedence on tarnishing effective ways of engaging the govt because of partisan politics..

- Protests... police teargas people, Nigerians supported and said jail them, they are looters
- NASS siege... we said we dont need Senators.. Give Buhari more power.
- Judiciary ridicule... we said them thieves..
- Restructure... we called them terrorists
- Justice and equity... we called them election loosers..
- Articles and columns protest... we called them wailers..
- Hardship... we said 16 years pdp rule, not Buhari
- Hunger... we said drop in crude oil, not Buhari
- Unemployment.. we said they were rogue companies, and have been living of free money.. not Buhari
- Social media outrage... we called them Buhari Haters,

Well... the Chicken has come home to roost, how do you now challenge the govt with even as little as 20% followership as some are screaming "next level" and others saying "enjoy your next level" while the country is no different from a war torn nation.

The so called king makers, should kindly enjoy their next level in silence.. they must reap what they sow.

While Buhari the Ajala keeps junketing round the world.