…Wants North to break all alliances with the YorubaABUJA:
A northern group, Coalition of Northern Groups, CNG, has accused the
Southwest region of Nigeria of conspiring to overthrow President
Muhammadu Buhari’s government with the #RevolutionNow protest.
The
group said the North will not be part of any international conspiracy
supported by South Westerners to destabilize the country.
While
it specifically accused the Southwest of being in the forefront of
agitations to overthrow the Muhammadu Buhari administration in spite of
being the “greatest beneficiary” of the same administration, the
northern coalition called for an end to all alliances with the
Southwest.
According to the group, “It is quite unfortunate that
the South West which has been the single major beneficiary of the Buhari
administration should also be in the forefront of efforts to discredit
and bring him down by all means. This can be seen in the manner in which
the bulk of political, cultural, religious and traditional leadership
is standing solidly against the government with its open support for
call for the violent overthrow of the Buhari government by the
#Revolutionow organizers.
“In particular, such individual
beneficiaries of the government and others largely from the South West
were nowhere to be seen when their people and the southern-based media
ignited tensions over the government’s Ruga initiative.
“These
same beneficiaries appear today in implicit support of the proposed
insurrection by maintaining a conspiratorial neutrality while other
southern influencers…explicitly backed the organizers”, the northern
coalition stated.
End Yoruba, Northern alliance
“We also
wish to ask the president if in all honesty he still considers the South
Western players as true friends who are genuinely desirous of his
success. He should ask himself if the treatment he is receiving from
them is worth the attention he had given the South West which involved
colliding with his northern brethren to the point of elevating the
status of June 12 as appeasement.
“To the entire northern leaders
and elite, we categorically say that the current political alignment
with the South West is not paying and it never will.”
Presidential apology
The
coalition was however quick to concede that the President Muhammadu
Buhari administration has not lived up to expectations and should, as a
matter of urgency, apologize to the nation.
“We submit that
instead of just sitting back to thank Nigerians for not joining the
overthrow plan, President Buhari should rather sincerely apologize to
the nation by reflecting on how he dragged the country into such a
desperate situation, own up to his inadequacies and take genuine steps
to address the mounting national grievances.
Unless this is done,
with the growing angry mood that pervades the entire country, the
likelihood of a more serious dissent remains imminent”, the coalition
warned.
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