The Northern political class has been accused of betraying northern citizens as death and destruction continue to plague the region.
The Gamji Heritage Association headed by Ahmed Abdullahi made the charge during the Sir Ahmadu Bello Annual Memorial Conference in Kaduna. Mr Abdullahi submitted in his address that since the death of Sir Ahmadu Bello Premier of the defunct Northern Nigeria, development and growth in the region has been stalled.
“This was caused by a near total betrayal of the North by no one other than the North itself.
“Where are the Northern industries, Bank of the North, academic institutions, agricultural and livestock industries?” Mr Abdullahi stated.
“But the North has been thrown into chaos, killings and kidnapping, with intra-ethnic and religious conflicts. The late Sir Ahmadu Bello built a united and prosperous Northern region with no discrimination against each other.
“It’s sad indeed, some leaders after the Sardauna betrayed us by under developing the states and injecting poverty, promoting killings and hunger,” Mr Abdullahi added.
He, however, said Gamji Heritage, as a Sardauna legacy, would embark on advocacy for the restoration of the Sir Ahmadu Bello development agenda to salvage the North from collapse.
The director-general of the Centre for Democratic Studies, Development and Training (CEDDERT), Abubakar Siddique-Mohammed, described contemporary Northern Nigeria as an alleged “victim of bad governance.”
He opined that the ongoing insurgency in the North was a deliberate attempt to kill the area by previous and present leaders of the region.
