Salihu Lukman, a Former National Vice Chairman, North-west of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has opined that the Northerners serving in the Tinubu-led administration have been reduced to members of a choir group poorly singing ‘On your mandate we stand’.
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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