– Alhaji Shettima Yerima noted that the north is backward in spite of its leadership position in the country
– The Arewa youth leader said other regions benefit from the leadership position of their leaders
Alhaji Shettima Yerima who is the president of the Arewa Youth Consultative forum has lashed out at northern elders whom he described as having desires to take power but don’t know how to use it to benefit their people.
In an interview with The Sun, Yerima noted that the north has ruled the country for about 38 years but has nothing to show for it as the region was still backward.
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He blamed the northern elites who are only concerned about themselves while ignoring the poverty and backwardness in the region.
He said: History has shown that the northerners are only good in grabbing power and playing politics but at the end, they do not know what they do with the power, and it is the southerners they appointed that are ultimate beneficiaries of the power, as they use it to empower and encourage their people in their regions. Out of 56 years of independence, the North has been in power for about 38 years, while the Yoruba and few others held on to power for that remaining years.
Despite all that you can see the level of poverty in the North, the number of uneducated people, obvious lack of development and the poor infrastructure in the North.
The northerner wants to get power by all means not because he has a programme to benefit his people.
The Northern brothers who have been there didn’t do anything for their people, and that is why the level of poverty is still very high in the North, and the same thing is going on now.
Almost everything is in the South, while our brother is only at the top. Even at that, they could not allow him to rest, as there is confusion from everywhere to distract him so that he doesn’t know what is happening.
It is only him that is doing the fight against corruption, and corruption is fighting back. With these confusion from everywhere, the tenure may end and there may not be much he achieved.
If he doesn’t make changes and bring people on board to help him, his case may be worse
Yerima lashes out at northern elders for region’s backwardness
At the end of the day, we have brothers who want to have power without any blueprint on how to help our people to come out of backwardness. Even as we have a brother who is at the top, our level of poverty in the North has multiplied if not tripled. Criminality in the Northern part of the country has taken a high dimension. Kidnapping which was alien to us has become the order of the day. Armed robbery is another issue, as most people in the North hardly sleep with both eyes closed, but those in the South are sleeping comfortably.
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Could it be the issue with Nigerian leadership, remember that when former President Jonathan returned home on May 29, 2015, he said he thought his people would stone him because he didn’t do anything for them, even the road leading to his house wasn’t done
He was able to empower his people who never had anything before. Today, they are well to do. If directly he didn’t do anything to his people, those he empowered can do something for their people. Some of his people who were our contemporaries or our boys are big boys now and doing very well and helping their communities. What happened to our own case?
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