Jega Charges Northern Leaders To Emulate Maitama Sule

Former INEC Chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega has called on Northern leaders to be good, patriotic and selfless in discharge of their duties.

Prof. Jega made the charge while speaking at the Maitama Sule Leadership Lecture Series in Katsina on Monday. The lecture was organised by the Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG).

He asked the current leaders to emulate the late Maitama Sule, who as the Danmasanin Kano, was a selfless and patriotic Nigerian who served the country well and protected northerners.

Prof Jega said the North is the region with the highest indexes of social challenges bedevilling the nation.

“Whether it is poverty, unemployment, insecurity, infant mortality, out-of-school children, poor girl-child education, or even early marriage challenges.

“Everything you can think of, the terrible statistics always come from the northern part of this country”, he said.

According to Jega, the fundamental causes of the crises originate from poor leadership and selfishness, with narrow vision and ideas to develop the country.

Jega said that erstwhile northern leaders, such as Maitama Sule and others, led the country at their youthful ages, and each of them did very well in protecting and developing the region and ensuring its integrity.

“But several decades later while cherishing these heroes passed memories of leaders, what kind of leadership qualities does the north have now,” he asked.

Prof. Jega also challenged the youth to know that they had a great task of developing themselves through active participation in politics in order not to let vandals destroy the nation economically.

Jega also lauded the CNG for its creativity in realising the need to start engaging the youth to rescue Nigeria and in particular the North from the social crises besetting the region.

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