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…says Tinubu not against the North
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Kaduna State Governor Uba Sani has told northern leaders and elites to come up with strategies to combat the challenges facing the North.
He said this when received the newly elected leaders of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) headed by Mamman Osuman (SAN) yesterday. Sani said the belief in the North that President Bola Tinubu is against the region was not correct.
According to him, some northerners are only interested in blame games, stressing further that Tinubu is doing his best for the North.
Sani said: “Despite the development indices, unfortunately, what people see in the North is the promotion of toxic politics, opposition for opposition’s sake.
“We have failed to ask ourselves some vital questions: Where did the rain start beating the North? “Who are those complicit in the underdevelopment of the North?
What have we done individually and collectively to find solutions to the challenges facing the North? “We must take a hard look at ourselves, tell ourselves some home truths, and move together to fashion a common strategy to address our developmental challenges and confront the criminals making life unbearable for our people.”
The governor challenged the ACF that it has a major role to play in building a consensus for the best approach to tackling the multifaceted challenges facing the region.
He urged the members of the apex northern group to make efforts to refocus the attention of northerners to de-emphasize politics and focus on development, towards overcoming the threats in the area.
Osuman said all the indices that track human progress—poverty, illiteracy, health, and security of life and property—placed the North at the deep end of the graph. He therefore emphasized that it has become incumbent on leaders and citizens alike to change the narrative without further delay
