A
northern leader has shown his annoyance as he condemned the President's
decision to appoint southerners to juicy political positions.
President Muhammadu Buhari
President of the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, AYCF, Alhaji
Shettima Yerima, has blasted President Muhammadu Buhari for his decision
to give “juicy” portfolios to Southerners at the expense of
Northerners.
He said this in an interview with Daily Sun reporters.
Yerima is angry why the President appointed former Lagos State
Governor, Bababatunde Fashola to head three ministries and ex-Rivers
State Governor, who also heads two Ministries.
He further lambasted Northern leaders for improverishing the people and failing to rescue them from abject poverty.
Speaking with The Sun, Yerima said, “This is very
true. Overtime, history has shown that the northerners are only good in
grabbing power and playing politics but at the end, they do not know
what they do with the power, and it is the southerners they appointed
that are ultimate beneficiaries of the power, as they use it to empower
and encourage their people in their regions. Out of 56 years of
independence, the North has been in power for about 38 years, while the
Yoruba and few others held on to power for that remaining years.
“Despite all that you can see the level of poverty in the
North, the number of uneducated people, obvious lack of development and
the poor infrastructure in the North.
“The northerner wants to get power by all means not because he has a programme to benefit his people.
“The Northern brothers who have been there didn’t do anything
for their people, and that is why the level of poverty is still very
high in the North, and the same thing is going on now.
“We were thinking that it was an opportunity to empower our
people but that is not what we are seeing. All the juicy appointments
are given to the South; you see one person from the South West holding
three juicy portfolios rolled into one, secondly another person from the
South South is given two juicy portfolios rolled into one. I’m talking
about former Lagos State governor, Raji Fashola and also former Rivers
State governor, Rotimi Amechi. Are there no northerners or other
Nigerians who could manage those offices?
“Almost everything is in the South, while our brother is only
at the top. Even at that, they could not allow him to rest, as there is
confusion from everywhere to distract him so that he doesn’t know what
is happening.
“It is only him that is doing the fight against corruption, and
corruption is fighting back. With these confusion from everywhere, the
tenure may end and there may not be much he achieved.
“If he doesn’t make changes and bring people on board to help
him, his case may be worse than that of Jonathan. I’m sorry about that.
“At the end of the day, we have brothers who want to have power
without any blueprint on how to help our people to come out of
backwardness. Even as we have a brother who is at the top, our level of
poverty in the North has multiplied if not tripled. Criminality in the
Northern part of the country has taken a high dimension. Kidnapping
which was alien to us has become the order of the day. Armed robbery is
another issue, as most people in the North hardly sleep with both eyes
closed, but those in the South are sleeping comfortably.
“Could it be the issue with Nigerian leadership, remember that
when former President Jonathan returned home on May 29, 2015, he said he
thought his people would stone him because he didn’t do anything for
them, even the road leading to his house wasn’t done
“He was able to empower his people who never had anything
before. Today, they are well to do. If directly he didn’t do anything to
his people, those he empowered can do something for their people. Some
of his people who were our contemporaries or our boys are big boys now
and doing very well and helping their communities. What happened to our
own case?”
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