…says politicians benefiting from insecurity working against Sheikh Gumi’s amnesty proposal for bandits

…Backs AUFCDN’s move to suspend movement of foodstuffs to South over attacks on Northerners

By Luminous Jannamike

Members of the Coalition of Northern Groups, CNG, have blamed the country’s security challenges on those they called “desperate southern political power seekers”.

The group also sensed a weakness in the Federal Government’s will to deal decisively with the instigators of the insecurity being felt, especially by Northerners in their region and elsewhere across the country.

CNG spokesman, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman, stated this at a press briefing in Abuja on Thursday.

The group didn’t give specific details on how the southern politicians instigated the security challenges, but maintained that the North was not unaware of their design and would not succumb to any form of power shift under threat.

Therefore, Suleiman stated that the North’s response to the situation was an unwillingness to remain at the receiving end of any attempt to force a transfer of power by shattering its cohesion or by agitating for the violent breakup of the country.

The CNG spokesman said, “We note the alarming rise in political militancy by a desperate self-serving section of political leaders that believe the only path to gaining the presidency is by threatening other sections of the country and in particular, targeting the overall viability of Northern Nigeria.

“The general and pervasive insecurity being felt by northerners in the North, and elsewhere across the country, manifesting with the deliberate profiling and systematic alienation of particularly the Hausa/Fulani ethnic group essentially represents a plot by unscrupulous politicians to force a transfer of power by whatever means and tactics.

“The indiscriminate attacks on northerners that have left untold numbers of dead and displaced persons are symptoms of the disquiet in the southern plank that has been exacerbated by political opportunism and power corruption in build up to the 2023 presidential ambition of southern political interests and their northern collaborators.

“The resurgence of ceaseless antagonism against the North is also part of a wider agenda aimed at causing greater instability and rendering the country practically ungovernable, and the setting in of anarchy as the strategies employed to achieve the results that the coupists of the First Republic failed to realise.

“This is compounded by the failure of the federal government to deal decisively with the instigators of these dastardly acts of ethnic cleansing which leaves the only conclusion that authorities have lost the political will and some of the necessary courage to enforce the fundamental rights of all citizens to live and flourish anywhere without discrimination or molestation.

“The persistence of the general insecurity across the land with the targeted devastation of northern Nigeria, are in the continuum of a southern agenda with its roots in our history and pursued vigorously since the onset of the Boko Haram insurgency more than a decade ago.

“We invite the desperate southern political power seekers who feel that their only path to gaining the presidency in 2023 or in the future, is by fomenting trouble and inciting hatred against other components of the country, to note that their actions will not go unnoticed and no section of the country, would succumb to any form of shift of power under threat.

“All those self-appointed enemies of the North who have no other useful vocation other than attacking northerners and their properties in the under the slightest of pretexts, should know that the North is not unaware of their design and shall no longer remain passive under such deliberate and sustained attacks and unwarranted provocation.

“We salute the decorum, decency, morality, accommodation, civilization and etiquette shown by northerners whose refusal to be goaded into reacting to the assault clearly justified the South as the volatile and violent part of the country.

“We call the attention of all northerners to note that the drivers of the unrest and disturbances going on in the North and elsewhere are mere antics antics for political ascendancy by attempting to force a transfer of power by shattering the northern cohesion.

“It is quite expeditious therefore for the North to anticipate and prepare to checkmate the unfolding maneuvres of such ambitious politicians as Bola Tinubu and his ilk who would stop at nothing in their quest for power.

“We therefore alert the North to raise its level of vigilance to avoid the pitfalls set by this type of politicians who are hell bent on using their internal conspirators and money to attain political power even by riding on the agony of the innocent.”

CNG also noted that those working against the proposal for engagement towards peaceful resolution of the security challenges by singling out Sheikh Ahmed Gumi for the attacks were those benefitting from the conflicts.

He added, “We align directly with Sheikh Ahmed Gumi’s position with regards to constructive engagement, opportunity for amnesty leading to reorientation, reintegration and re-assimilation of those who embrace peace within a reasonable timeframe after which, the resort can be made to force in crushing the recalcitrant ones.

“In this regard, we urge the Sheikh and his team not to be distracted by the forces of destabilization within and outside the North while calling for an expanded framework for negotiations with the involvement of all willing northern Governors and other significant components of the northern society in order to achieve final demobilization and disarmament.

“Successive governments have found it expeditious to establish structures like OMPADEC, NDDC, Ministry of Niger Delta, the Amnesty Programme, etc aimed at resolving a specific set of challenges affecting specific communities in the South.

“There is therefore no justification whatsoever to resist, or even question the extension of similar special initiatives to address the needs of herdsmen if these will lead to lasting peace and stability.

“It is important to place on record that all those working against the proposal for engagement towards peaceful resolution of the conflict by singling Sheikh Ahmed Gumi for attacks and irreverent treatment, are those who directly benefit from the conflict through proceeds from the supply of arms and drugs, or remotely, in the hope of riding to power on its back.”

The CNG also backed the resolve of the Amalgamated Union of Foodstuffs and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria (AUFCDN) to suspend further movement of goods to the South over the attacks on northerners, especially in the South-west.

“We also stand solidly behind the resolve of the Amalgamated Union of Foodstuffs and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria to suspend further movement of goods to the South to press for compensation for losses suffered in the attacks as well as to extract a solid guarantee for the future safety of northerners in the South,” CNG said.

The group commended the Northern Governors’ Forum, under Governor Simon Bako Lalong, for embarking on a solidarity visit to estranged northern communities, especially in Ibadan of Oyo state.

“We welcome the NGF’s insistence on restitution to be made where northerners were made to suffer losses as a result of the deliberate actions of perpetrators of crimes against them.

“While, we are in alignment with the call for compensation for victims of the violence, we however insist it is not enough, without the prompt arrest and diligent prosecution of both perpetrators, instigators and sponsors of those heinous crimes,” Suleiman added.

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I don't think this people understand wot they are saying. when did bokoharam started and who are behind it during Jonathan's regime? now they came out to blame southerners for their misfortune and their evil.

“The general and pervasive insecurity being felt by northerners in the North, and elsewhere across the country, manifesting with the deliberate profiling and systematic alienation of particularly the Hausa/Fulani ethnic group essentially represents a plot by unscrupulous politicians to force a transfer of power by whatever means and tactics.

Finally, my people eyes dun clear... Something I have been singing...

Anyway, fear politicians! As Buhari no gree die as they expected, they decided to frustrate him... First, they used EndSars, as e no work, they switched to attacking his tribe. But they'll continue to fail! WOEFULLY! Hausa/Fulani too smart to be blackmailed by political juveniles!

North is blessed!
Nigeria is blessed!
God bless us all!

SilverNorGold:

One thing about pretense is that, it never lasts.

This is the Nigeria of our dreams, This is the Nigeria majority of Nigerians deserve

So it was the desperate politician in the south that paid bandits when they kidnapped people in Niger? Or was it the so called southern politician that is shielding the bandits and speaking for them?

These guys are high on premium cow dung I wonder how they sleep at night, rather than face the monster they created they are busy blaming other region for their own foolishnesses that is dragging all of us back to stone age as a country....

Yenny4real:
I don't think this people understand wot they are saying. when did bokoharam started and who are behind it during Jonathan's regime? now they came out to blame southerners for their misfortune and their evil.

This is what you get when you bath with cow urine it has a way of affecting the brain and your sense of reason.....


They are set of jokers....

Creating perception problem in the minds of northerners for an incoming southern president.

The lasting solution to series of problems confronting this nation lies in restructuring or disintegration.

We really need to find out what Lord Luggard ate before thinking of joining us together with these people because it is not ordinary honestly.



Imagine!

SilverNorGold:


[s]Finally, my people eyes dun clear... Something I have been singing...

Anyway, fear politicians! As Buhari no gree die as they expected, they decided to frustrate him... First, they used EndSars, as e no work, they switched to attacking his tribe. But they'll continue to fail! WOEFULLY! Hausa/Fulani too smart to be blackmailed by political juveniles!

North is blessed!
Nigeria is blessed!
God bless us all![/s]

SAD THING IS - YOU ARE A SUPPOSED INTELIGENT BEING.

Our Northern brothers are just so power drunk and selfish

Must power be wrestled from the north in the first place?

All the worst leaders this country has produced came from the same region, why?

Nawa this is full article sha.. any summary

These people lacks common sense. BH Terrorists that where used to cause huge mayhem and insecurity during GEJ's government by the northern cabals that where desperate for power and now u want to blame the south. Karma is already f*cking u lots up and i pray it increases in a thousand folds xcept u change, fools

Yeah it's true I'm the black northerner guy on the left with blue cap, I observed this!

Stupid post deserve nonsense comment, see my siggy jareh

Why are these guys so stupid. You mean people in the south are sponsoring bandits in the north. Kai.

G

trash. what about insecurity under gej?

Selfish group of power-hungry undeveloped people. If you like keep breeding humans like dogs and refuse to train them. More bandits, kidnappers and killers in your region

Wetin be this again. Who vomit this rubbish. This country tire finish.

My annoyance is that I put Canada as first choice and USA as second choice, I don't know how I landed in this country with these people.

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They are talking from experience presumably. The North started terrorism to gain power. Now they presumed the South has bought into their idea, but we are more civilised than that.

Also presuming that by maintaining their terroristic tendencies power will be retained by them, is a disappointment about to happen.

SilverNorGold:


Finally, my people eyes dun clear... Something I have been singing...

Anyway, fear politicians! As Buhari no gree die as they expected, they decided to frustrate him... First, they used EndSars, as e no work, they switched to attacking his tribe. But they'll continue to fail! WOEFULLY! Hausa/Fulani too smart to be blackmailed by political juveniles!

North is blessed!
Nigeria is blessed!
God bless us all!

Typical fulani muslim with conquering and born to rule mentality.

whoever wrote this crap is high on sawdust... Wtf! Nah North dey kill north!!! EOD

They want their own version of ND amnesty program... boys wan chop Anyway, the truth is we will have to settle this issue somehow. I suggest that the governors in the NW and NE build ranching communities for these herdsmen with schools and other amenities while dealing with the violent ones among them

SilverNorGold:

[s]Finally, my people eyes dun clear... Something I have been singing...

Anyway, fear politicians! As Buhari no gree die as they expected, they decided to frustrate him... First, they used EndSars, as e no work, they switched to attacking his tribe. But they'll continue to fail! WOEFULLY! Hausa/Fulani too smart to be blackmailed by political juveniles!

North is blessed!
Nigeria is blessed!
God bless us all![/s]

Another example of a northerner thinking like his cows.

North wants power to stay permanently in their region

SilverNorGold:


Finally, my people eyes dun clear... Something I have been singing...

Anyway, fear politicians! As Buhari no gree die as they expected, they decided to frustrate him... First, they used EndSars, as e no work, they switched to attacking his tribe. But they'll continue to fail! WOEFULLY! Hausa/Fulani too smart to be blackmailed by political juveniles!

North is blessed!
Nigeria is blessed!
God bless us all!

You pay Bandits.
You refuse that they be flushed out
You make excuses for them
You blame the South

Seems you guys enjoy violence.
You never learnt from Boko Haram
Who is Boko Haram Tormenting Most?

Excuses of human beings