Coalition Of Northern Groups Asks Buhari To Break Ties With Southwest ‘Conspiracy’ Leaders

By Ayodele Oluwafemi

The Coalition of Northern Groups has asked the North and President Muhammadu Buhari to review its present alignment with the Southwest in view of what it on Wednesday claimed as a conspiracy by Southwest institutions including media and activists to bring down the government.

The group in a statement obtained by GreenWhiteGreen said that the despite being the greatest beneficiary of the present political arrangement that the Southwest has become the face of the RevolutionNow campaign instigated against the Buhari regime.

The coalition which in the past gave ultimatum to the Igbo to leave the North in the statement also flayed Buhari for underperforming as president.

The statement signed by the CNG’s spokesperson Abdulazez Suleiman said:

“It is quite unfortunate that the South West which has been the the single major beneficiary of the Buhari administration should also be in the forefront of efforts to discredit and bring him down by all means.

“This can be seen in the manner in which the bulk of political, cultural, religious and traditional leadership is standing solidly against the government with its open support for call for the violent overthrow of the Buhari government by the #Revolutionow organizers.

“In particular, such individual beneficiaries of the government as Bola Tinubu, Fashola, Fayemi, Argbesola, and others largely from the South West were nowhere to be seen when their people and the southern-based media ignited tensions over the government’s Ruga initiative.

“These same beneficiaries appear today in implicit support of the proposed insurrection by maintaining a conspiratorial neutrality while other southern influencers like Wole Soyinka, Bisi Akande, Falana etc explicitly back the organizers.

WAY FORWARD

“We submit that instead of just sitting back to thank Nigerians for not joining the overthrow plan, President Buhari should rather sincerely apologize to the nation by reflecting on how he dragged the country into such a desperate situation, own up to his inadequacies and take genuine steps to address the mounting national grievances.

“Unless this is done, with the growing angry mood that pervades the entire country, the likelihood of a more serious dissent remains imminent.

“We also wish to ask the president if in all honesty he still considers the South Western players as  true friends who are genuinely desirous of his success. He should ask himself if the treatment he is receiving from them is worth the attention he had given the South West which involved colliding with his northern brethren to the point of elevating the status of June 12 as appeasement.”

“To the entire northern leaders and elite, we categorically say that the current political alignment with the South West is not paying and it never will.

“The vital task at this point is for the northern political leadership to renegotiate its current alliance with the South West which has never been North’s political ally The alliance is already turning out to be unhealthy.

“We are calling on the northern elders and leaders to review the region’s position by realigning with our traditional political friends which had served the whole nation for decades before the coming of this unholy and unprofitable union with the South Western block.

“This has become necessary with the way the South West is going about the current friendship by being more openly antagonistic to northern interests even while they are the major beneficiaries of the Buhari administration. They, at the slightest of pretences, openly denigrate the North, its people, its leadership and culture which must not be allowed to continue.

“The CNG therefore calls on the current leadership of the Northern Elders Forum under Professor Ango Abdullahi to mobilize relevant stakeholders towards bringing an end to the political partnership with the South West and embracing the North’s initial political allies.”

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