Monday, July 1, 2024 -A Former National Vice Chairman, North-west of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Salihu Lukman, says the Northerners serving in the Tinubu administration have been reduced to members of a “choir group poorly singing ‘on your mandate we stand’ irrespective of the shaky and staggering reality being demonstrated by the mandate holder.”
According to him, the opportunity for
Northern political leaders to redeem themselves and return the North back to
rational order with committed leaders capable of responding to the challenges
of the region was blown away during the tenure of ex-President Muhammadu
Buhari.
In a statement he personally signed,
titled, ‘Explosive North: Open Letter to Northern Politicians’, Lukman who
recently resigned from APC, said political leaders in the country must be
cautioned that things were about to get out of hand any moment from now,
especially in the North and if care is not taken, hungry people who are
everywhere in the region will start breaking into homes and looting properties
of innocent citizens.
The statement reads
“So far, one year has passed into President
Asiwaju Tinubu's administration. No doubt, Northern political leaders are
becoming weaker and more disorganised. Even the Vice President, Sen. Kashim
Shettima GCON, who is the highest office holder and by virtue of that should
have served as the needed rallying point for Northern politicians, is anything
but a political leader.
With every
respect, hardly any official of the current administration of President Asiwaju
Tinubu from the North, including Sen. Shettima, is willing and able to take the
needed risk to defend the interest of the North. Painfully, what is emerging is
that most leaders from the North are more concerned about self-preservation in
the government.
Because of
self-preservation, already scheming for 2027 has commenced. Within the
Presidency, there are indicative cold war dynamics and positioning, which is
alleged to be responsible for the praise-singing disposition of Vice President
Shettima. The National Security Adviser (NSA), Mal. Nuhu Ribadu has devalued an
exalted office almost to the status of a Protocol Office to President Asiwaju
Tinubu.
Virtually
all other Northern politicians holding offices in this government, including
the Secretary to Government of the Federation (SGF), Sen. George Akume are
absentee public servants who have been reduced to members of a choir group
poorly singing ‘on your mandate we stand’ irrespective of the shaky and
staggering reality being demonstrated by the mandate holder with reference to
poor service delivery and crashing living conditions in the last one year.”
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