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 said that the North’s reaction to the state of affairs became an unwillingness to stay at the receiving cease of any try to pressure a transfer of strength by shattering its cohesion or by using agitating for the violent breakup of the country.
The CNG spokesman said, “We be aware the alarming upward thrust in political militancy with the aid of a determined self-serving phase of political leaders that believe the best path to gaining the presidency is by means of threatening other sections of the u . S . A . And specially, targeting the general viability of Northern Nigeria.
“The trendy and pervasive lack of confidence being felt by way of northerners inside the North, and elsewhere across the u . S ., manifesting with the planned profiling and systematic alienation of particularly the Hausa/Fulani ethnic organization essentially represents a plot via unscrupulous politicians to force a switch of electricity by way of whatever means and processes.
“The indiscriminate assaults on northerners which have left untold numbers of lifeless and displaced individuals are signs of the disquiet within the southern plank that has been exacerbated through political opportunism and power corruption in building up to the 2023 presidential ambition of southern political pastimes and their northern collaborators.
“The resurgence of ceaseless antagonism towards the North is also a part of a wider agenda aimed at inflicting greater instability and rendering the united states of america practically ungovernable, and the putting in of anarchy because the strategies employed to reap the effects that the coupists of the First Republic didn't realise.
“This is compounded by the failure of the federal government to deal decisively with the instigators of those dastardly acts of ethnic cleansing which leaves the only end that government have lost the political will and a number of the important courage to enforce the essential rights of all citizens to live and flourish anywhere without discrimination or molestation.
“The patience of the general insecurity across the land with the targeted devastation of northern Nigeria, are within the continuum of a southern time table with its roots in our records and pursued vigorously for the reason that onset of the Boko Haram insurgency more than a decade ago.
“We invite the desperate southern political electricity seekers who feel that their best path to gaining the presidency in 2023 or within the destiny, is through fomenting trouble and inciting hatred towards different additives of the united states, to be aware that their movements will now not move unnoticed and no phase of the country, might succumb to any shape of shift of electricity underneath threat.
“All those self-appointed enemies of the North who have no different useful vocation aside from attacking northerners and their houses within the under the slightest of pretexts, need to realize that the North isn't always blind to their layout and shall not remain passive beneath such deliberate and sustained assaults and unwarranted provocation.
“We salute the decorum, decency, morality, lodging, civilization and etiquette proven through northerners whose refusal to be goaded into reacting to the attack really justified the South as the risky and violent a part of the u . S . A ..
“We call the attention of all northerners to be aware that the drivers of the unrest and disturbances going on inside the North and elsewhere are mere antics antics for political ascendancy by using trying to force a transfer of energy via shattering the northern brotherly love.
“It is quite expeditious therefore for the North to anticipate and prepare to checkmate the unfolding maneuvres of such bold politicians as Bola Tinubu and his ilk who might prevent at not anything of their quest for electricity.
“We therefore alert the North to elevate its stage of vigilance to keep away from the pitfalls set through this sort of politicians who're hell bent on the use of their inner conspirators and cash to gain political energy even by using using at the anguish of the innocent.”
CNG also mentioned that the ones working towards the inspiration for engagement toward non violent resolution of the security demanding situations by singling out Sheikh Ahmed Gumi for the assaults were those benefitting from the conflicts.
He brought, “We align at once with Sheikh Ahmed Gumi’s function as regards to constructive engagement, possibility for amnesty main to reorientation, reintegration and re-assimilation of folks that embrace peace within a reasonable time-frame after which, the lodge may be made to pressure in crushing the recalcitrant ones.
“In this regard, we urge the Sheikh and his group no longer to be distracted with the aid of the forces of destabilization inside and outdoor the North whilst calling for an improved framework for negotiations with the involvement of all inclined northern Governors and other considerable additives of the northern society if you want to obtain final demobilization and disarmament.
“Successive governments have discovered it expeditious to establish systems like OMPADEC, NDDC, Ministry of Niger Delta, the Amnesty Programme, and many others aimed toward resolving a particular set of challenges affecting particular groups in the South.
“There is consequently no justification whatsoever to withstand, or maybe query the extension of comparable unique tasks to deal with the wishes of herdsmen if those will lead to lasting peace and balance.
“It is important to area on document that all the ones running in opposition to the suggestion for engagement toward non violent decision of the war by way of singling Sheikh Ahmed Gumi for attacks and irreverent remedy, are those who directly enjoy the battle through proceeds from the supply of fingers and drugs, or remotely, within the desire of riding to power on its again.”
The CNG additionally sponsored the solve of the Amalgamated Union of Foodstuffs and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria (AUFCDN) to suspend in addition motion of products to the South over the assaults on northerners, especially in the South-west.
“We additionally stand solidly at the back of the solve of the Amalgamated Union of Foodstuffs and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria to suspend further motion of goods to the South to press for reimbursement for losses suffered within the assaults as well as to extract a stable assure for the destiny safety of northerners in the South,” CNG stated.
The organization commended the Northern Governors’ Forum, underneath Governor Simon Bako Lalong, for embarking on a cohesion visit to estranged northern groups, in particular in Ibadan of Oyo kingdom.
“We welcome the NGF’s insistence on restitution to be made where northerners were made to suffer losses due to the deliberate actions of perpetrators of crimes in opposition to them.
“While, we are in alignment with the call for reimbursement for victims of the violence, we but insist it is not sufficient, without the set off arrest and diligent prosecution of both perpetrators, instigators and sponsors of those heinous crimes,” Suleiman brought.
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