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2023: North now a human abattoir, power should go the Southeast -Arewa groups

By Ibrahim Hassan-Wuyo

The leadership of Arewa Concerned Civil Society Organisations of Nigerian (ACCSON) has said that in the interest of fairness and equity, the Presidency in 2023 should go to the Southeast since the has turned into a human abbattoir under the incumbent administration.

The ACCSON frowned at a statement purportedly credited to one Alhaji Yerima Shettima, President of Arewa Consultative Youth Forum, saying that “It is too late for the 2023 Presidency to be zoned to the southeast”.

This was contained in a statement signed by Comrade Abdulsalam Mohammed Kazeem, Spokesperson,Arewa Concerned Civil Society Organisations of Nigeria (ACCSON).

ACCSON, umbrella body of over 40 CSOs, youth , students and women groups in the North, said it considered the said statement as a reckless one devoid of reason, empathy, and fairness.

“It is indecorous and even outrightly provocative and inciting in nature. We strongly believe that no genuine democrat with sincere national interest and who cherishes the spirit of unity and corporate existence of Nigeria will utter such insensitive comments at this critical political time in our country. “

“For the sake of the records and for posterity, the said statement by Alhaji Yerima Shettima does not, in any way, represent the recent position of our umbrella youth coalition, the Arewa Concerned Civil Society Organizations of Nigeria (ACCSON), that the Presidency of Nigeria in 2023 should be specifically zoned to the South East geo-political zone, in the interest of political equity and fairness.”

“We openly made this declaration recently during the inauguration of our group at the Arewa House in kaduna. Therefore, the statement by Shettima stands condemned in it’s totality by our group ACCSON, and we expect Nigerians and particularly the media to treat the statement purely as the personal opinion of Yerima Shettima, a former youth activist from our northern region.”

“The basis of our position on the said statement credited to Shettima are as follows:That the Nigerian National Youth Policy (2009) described a youth as a person between the ages of 15 to 35 years-old.
The African Youth Charter defines a youth as somebody within the age brackets of 15 to 35 years-old.
While the United Nations categorized such person as one who is between 15 to 24 years-old respectively.”

“So, going by the above definitions, Alhaji Yerima Shettima is not a youth and can not be classified as one. He is far above the age of 35 years, and as such, his statement remains a personal one and not that of the Arewa Youths.”

“It is noteworthy to restate here, that the position of our group, the Arewa Concerned Civil Society Organizations of Nigeria (ACCSON) calling for the rotational presidency among the six geo political zones of the country was as a result of our peculiar regional experiences. Both past and present crop of elected and appointed leaders from within our region have failed us completely. They have failed to meet up with the expectations of our people, and have continued to betray our trust, confidence, and respect for them.”

For instance, from 1999 to date (which is 22 years now), the North West and North East Zones have produced president, Vice president, Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Senate Presidents, and Speakers of the House of Representatives. The North Central Zone alone has produced two Senate Presidents in 12 years; a Deputy Senate president and a Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives. Our three zones of the northern region, in total, have produced more Ministers, Services Chiefs and Heads of Governments Agencies more than any other region, yet there is nothing on ground to show for it.”


“They only leverage on our population advantage, which though is an added advantage in a democratic setting. The said population is only useful to our region during electioneering period. The major benefit of a population advantage in economics is that it remains attractive to both the multi- national and trans-national companies that would want to site industries in such location in other to maximize their market and get very cheap labour.”

“Our northern region today has been reduced to a human abattoir, to say the least, where all our communities have been converted to a mass grave due to the failure of government at all levels. For instance, between October 2021 till date, over 150 citizens of northern extraction have been murdered by terrorists in Sokoto state alone, not to talk of Zamfara, Kebbi, Kaduna, Katsina, Niger, Benue, Borno and Yobe States. Despite the claims by government that terrorism and violent insurgency is aggressively being fought, the north has remained a killing field.”

Our country is about the highest importer of Arms and Ammunition in Africa and our region is seemingly the poverty capital of Nigeria, yet our people occupied and are still occupying the most sensitive positions in government from 1999 till Date.”

“We are not sycophants of government, but we are patriotic northerners too, with history of respect for constituted authority and for our elders”

“It is therefore the position of our northern umbrella youths coalition, the Arewa Concerned Civil Society Organizations of Nigeria (ACCSON), that since our people in leadership positions in Nigeria can not bring development, peace, progress, and prosperity to our region, let us try people of other regions, particularly the region or geo-political zone that has not produced a President or Vice president of Nigeria in other to further promote fairness, equity, unity or oneness of the country. Long Live, Nigeria!”


https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/12/2023-north-now-a-human-abattoir-power-should-go-the-southeast-arewa-groups/

Igbo Polititian should use their head oo, Presidency this time around is dicey, 2023/2024, Arewa have something sinister, If you ask me, let every Igbo be very careful in aspiring for presidency, the situation is quite precarious and only a president with extreme ingenuity can salvage which means this presidency is like dining with the devil, long spoon alert

Power should remain in the north, for the north have demonstrated that they’re the true patriots in Nigeria. If the north doesn’t want to contest for the presidency, then power should go to the SW because the Yoruba have demonstrated that they’re considerate and respect others opinion, without malice.
The SE is also a human abattoir where Ipob/ESN terrorists are killing at will. The SE’s political capital have been completely destroyed by Ipob terrorists and the Igbo leaders/elders had refused to condemn evil for what it is because of their sentiments. Such people don’t deserve the presidency.

For the SE to get the presidency, then they must ask for the head of namadi cownu to be chopped off and roasted on a steak like his Ipob terrorists did to the police officers.

Seen and noted

AlexBells:
Igbo Polititian should use their head oo, Presidency this time around is dicey, 2023/2024, Arewa have something sinister, If you ask me, let every Igbo be very careful in aspiring for presidency, the situation is quite precarious and only a president with extreme ingenuity can salvage which means this presidency is like dining with the devil, long spoon alert

Then nobody should contest na

Vistra40:
Then nobody should contest na

If possible, but you know that's not possible, but the reality would be very messy,

oilyngbati:
For the SE to get the presidency, then they must ask for the head of namadi cownu to be chopped off and roasted on a steak like his Ipob terrorists did to the police officers.

Why are you so foolish, I don't think the Igbos need 2023 presidency,

Emergingnation1:
Yes, the presidency should continue between the north and the SW ..

Igbo ain't interested, cos we are signing out.........

Nobody is talking about signing out if you want to be sensible and real, you know Igbos can't secede without the presidency so keep any real thought of secession aside, unless Nigeria becomes at least 75% failed state, secession would be impossible for any group, the failed state situation of Nigeria is at about 39% not even halve a failed state yet so get real and adapt

oilyngbati:
For the SE to get the presidency, then they must ask for the head of namadi cownu to be chopped off and roasted on a steak like his Ipob terrorists did to the police officers.

Clap for yourself sir

AlexBells:
If possible, but you know that's not possible, but the reality would be very messy,

Anyone who emerges as the next president regardless of where he comes from has his job cut out for him

There is something most people are not seeing...or analyzing well.

Now that the north has all the power, and the president assured that the north occupies more than 90% of strategic positions...the killing is getting harder...

What makes you people think that even if an Igbo becomes the president everything will end? (Not that I am not in support of fairness and justice)

Don't you think these people supported by their politicians will be more angered and brutal than they are now, when power must have left them and cause more damages?

What I am saying is that Nigeria needs proper restructuring now or it will get worse...these bandits will get more support from the northerners who will lose their positions.

Save this post...as a reminder...

Vistra40:
Anyone who emerges as the next president regardless of where he comes from has his job cut out for him

No, others especially Yoruba can runaway, an Igbo would prepare for war, stupid I guess, Northern president would ignore, Yoruba most likely would run away, Igbo would fight, which we could get really tricky and brutal and getting us involved in the shits that we can easily avoid

Redcrafton:
There is something most people are not seeing...or analyzing well.

Now that the north has all the power, and the president assured that the north occupies more than 90% of strategic positions...the killing is getting harder...

What makes you people think that even if an Igbo becomes the president everything will end? (Not that I am not in support of fairness and justice)

Don't you think these people supported by their politicians will be more angered and brutal than they are now, when power must have left them and cause more damages?

What I am saying is that Nigeria needs proper restructuring now or it will get worse...these bandits will get more support from the northerners who will lose their positions.

Save this post...as a reminder...

Because an Igbo man would always fight irrespective of the cost, the North can ignore and the west can run,

Please keep the presidency. All we want is fairness, equal rights and justice.Correct the political imbalance in this failed nation first.Referendum or total disintegration

AlexBells:
Igbo Polititian should use their head.Presidency this time around is dicey.2023/2024, Arewa have something sinister.If you ask me, let every Igbo be very careful in aspiring for presidency.

The situation is quite precarious & only a president with extreme ingenuity can salvage which means this presidency is like dining with the devil, long spoon alert

Oil dey your head.Ka Chikwu goziri ofoma ofoma. This is the startling reality people like Chukwuemeka Ezeife and other proponents of the so called Igbo presidency have failed to visualized.

This failed contraption have long been destroyed by the north hence will never make any progress. Referendum or total disintegration

AlexBells:
Because an Igbo man would always fight irrespective of the cost, the North can ignore and the west can run,

Please be serious for once...

Would the Igbos be the only soldiers posted to Sokoto, Zamfara, Katsina, Kaduna, Jos and Benue?

AlexBells:
No, others especially Yoruba can runaway, an Igbo would prepare for war, stupid I guess, Northern president would ignore, Yoruba most likely would run away, Igbo would fight, which we could get really tricky and brutal and getting us involved in the shits that we can easily avoid

If the president is an igbo, then he would have to be a strong character like OBJ

That is the right thing to do

Emergingnation1:
Yes, the presidency should continue between the north and the SW ..

Igbo ain't interested, cos we are signing out.........

Mumu, have you asked your hunchback bingo leader whom you are contributing monthly dues to about ‘how to get a country’? Do you think one criminal hiding in a 2x2 shoe box, yapping on radio is what it takes to get biaflaud? Have read about the multivideo convention of 1933 held in Uruguay and ratified by the UN in 1948? Nigeria is a sovereign country and if you don’t respect her sovereignty, better relocate to Israel or you end up in graveyard. Goat!

AlexBells:
Why are you so foolish, I don't think the Igbos need 2023 presidency,

goat! Ezeife says the SE is ready to kneel and beg for the presidency, so who are you, an inconsequential son of Bia.tch whose opinion doesn’t count. My friend, go and pay your monthly dues to your hunchback suplim reader in DSS custody.

Redcrafton:
Please be serious for once...

Would the Igbos be the only soldiers posted to Sokoto, Zamfara, Katsina, Kaduna, Jos and Benue?

Are we talking about the individual soldiers or the commanders, Igbos have the most passionate soldiers in the Nigerian history, 1. Kaduna Nzeogwu 2. Emanuel Ifeajuna 3. Emeka Ojukwu 4. Aguiyi Ironsi, apparently the Igbos had always had the finest of soldiers with deadly passion and intelligence, If Igbo commanders are in charge, the sponsors of terrorism would be gunned down and their foot soldiers eliminated,

kulu ma sayakun sayakun
Quod erit, erit.

oilyngbati:
goat! Ezeife says the SE is ready to kneel and beg for the presidency, so who are you, an inconsequential son of Bia.tch whose opinion doesn’t count. My friend, go and pay your monthly dues to your hunchback suplim reader in DSS custody.

I believe in Nigeria for a start but an Igbo president 2023 would not be in our best interest, who when would the Igbos stop trying to save Nigeria, we just need to stay far and observe, we can fight terrorists who make it here to Igboland but whatsoever going on in any other part of Nigeria should be secondary, heavily armed terrorists with serious ambitions is not what we want to get ourselves involved in fighting, they don't want us we are infidels and proud

Emergingnation1:
Says typical Skull mining terrorist..... It is your miserable head that will chopped to keep Nigeria as one solely for Hausa Fulani and Yoruba.... Igbo is singing out..

Chronic unity beggar

Have you done a survey on the Igbo if they want the presidency or not? Most of you demented ipog goats keep shouting like stuffed pigs as if you represent the entire Igbo society. You brainless ipooo terrorists are just bunch of ndi eri eri and aka na eri unu. Fools and Tinubu is the next president. Go and die if you have a problem with that.

Vistra40:
If the president is an igbo, then he would have to be a strong character like OBJ

Even OBJ would only start a civil war, terrorists with helicopters, anti aircraft guns, machine guns and numerous explosives is not something you want to confront that way, the situation is terrible but no one will tell you

AlexBells:
Are we talking about the individual soldiers or the commanders, Igbos have the most passionate soldiers in the Nigerian history, 1. Kaduna Nzeogwu 2. Emanuel Ifeajuna 3. Emeka Ojukwu 4. Aguiyi Ironsi, apparently the Igbos had always had the finest of soldiers with deadly passion and intelligence, If Igbo commanders are in charge, the sponsors of terrorism would be gunned down and their foot soldiers eliminated,

I agree, but the individuals can't be all over the crisis points.

There are informants even now that the top commanders are northerners.

So what do you think will happen when the top commanders are Igbos?

You don't know how these people think.

AlexBells:
I believe in Nigeria for a start but an Igbo president 2023 would not be in our best interest, who when would the Igbos stop trying to save Nigeria, we just need to stay far and observe, we can fight terrorists who make it here to Igboland but whatsoever going on in any other part of Nigeria should be secondary, heavily armed terrorists with serious ambitions is not what we want to get ourselves involved in fighting, they don't want us we are infidels and proud

@ the bolded, shows that you’re playing like a typical Igbo man, denial and playing the ostrich. Ipopigs and their hunchback suplim reader, lamidi cownu already turned Igboland to a den of terrorists. Haven’t you been seeing the killings of prominent Igbo sons, traditional rulers, deprivation of children from attending schools and writing exams? Oh, I forgot, you all claim it’s DSS, while absolving ipog terrorists. The problem with most of you chaps is you like to focus on others problems, while ignoring yours. No wonder you were all looking at jublil’s left ear, while hunchback bingo, namadi cownu was arming criminals in your land.

Noooo....let it remain in the north.

Redcrafton:
I agree, but the individuals can't be all over the crisis points.

There are informants even now that the top commanders are northerners.

So what do you think will happen when the top commanders are Igbos?

You don't know how these people think.

The Igbos can save Nigeria but if we do what we know how to do best, won't you give it ethnic coloration and kill Igbo civilians while ganging up everyone against us, if you want I can give you a list, but no Igbo man would do somethings like that becuase we are the last in their attack menu and they are scared of us, so I say let's sit back and observe and clap