Sen. Shehu Sani, a former Kaduna Central Senator, has berated Northern leaders over the prevalence of poverty and insecurity in the region.
Sani, in a statement on X on Tuesday, lamented that the widespread “poverty, destitution, illiteracy, chronic underdevelopment, abject neglect, religious extremism, and terrorism” in the region has prevented the North from reaching its potential.
He urged the Northern leaders to learn from the violence that associated the #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protest, warning that the people will revolt if the leaders in the region fail to do the needful.
“Northern leaders must take lessons from the recent violent uprising in the region. The President must be held to account, but he is not the problem or the solution to the problem,” he said.
“The governors, political, business, religious, traditional leaders, and the intellectuals of the region must converge and urgently come out with an implementable master plan to tackle the decades of endemic poverty and destitution, illiteracy, chronic underdevelopment, abject neglect, religious extremism, and terrorism that have demonized the region and impoverished its people,” he added.
He urged the North to stop its overreliance on federal government allocations but rather generate wealth internally through farming.
“Guns and tanks can suppress the flame but not extinguish the fire. The monster in our homes was not created in a day.
“The North should look at the mirror and not the telescope. We have the cattle to build our wealth; we shouldn’t be looking for a scapegoat to combat instability and terrorism,” Sani stated.n
