The Coalition of Northern Groups, CNG, on Wednesday accused the
South-West of attempting to overthrow President Muhammadu Buhari through
the RevolutionNow protest called by former presidential candidate of
African Action Congress, AAC, Omoyele Sowore.
CNG claimed that the RevolutionNow was a SouthWest conspiracy, hence Northerners refused to take part in the protest.
Recall that the Department of State Services, DSS, had arrested Sowore over the weekend for calling for the protest.
Despite his arrest, the protest was held in some states across the country.
However, spokesperson of CNG, Malam Abdul-Azeez Sulaiman in a
statement explained that the group’s decision not to be part of the
RevolutionNow marches across the nation was because “the North will not be part of any international conspiracy supported by South Westerners to destabilize the country.”
The statement reads: “It is quite unfortunate that the
South-West which has been 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 violent overthrow of the Buhari government by the #Revolutionow
organizers.
“In particular, such individual beneficiaries of the government
as Bola Tinubu, Fashola, Fayemi, Aregbesola, 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”, the northern coalition stated.
The group also called for an end to the Yoruba, Northern alliance.
It added: “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 pretenses, 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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