{"id":21581,"date":"2020-02-18T17:46:12","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T17:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=21581"},"modified":"2020-02-18T17:46:12","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T17:46:12","slug":"the-north-will-destroy-itself-if-it-doesnt-change-sanusi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/the-north-will-destroy-itself-if-it-doesnt-change-sanusi","title":{"rendered":"The north will destroy itself if it doesn\u2019t change \u2014 Sanusi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The emir spoke on Monday at the Kaduna state government house during a programme to commemorate the 60th birthday celebration of Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna.<\/p>\n<p>Sanusi said as a leader, repeating the same thing and expecting a different result shows that something is wrong.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the real change can only occur in the north through those who do things differently.<\/p>\n<p>He commended el-Rufai\u2019s reforms in the education sector, noting that what the governor is doing in the sector is what will save the north.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is almost correct now to say that, if you are seen as normal, if you are a governor in the north or a leader in the north, and you are seen as normal in the sense that you continue to do what your predecessors have been doing, doing the same thing, which has been normalised, then, there is something wrong with you. You are part of the problem, \u201d Sanusi said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe real change in the north will come from those who are considered mad people, because you look around and say if this is the way we have been doing things, and this is where we have ended up, maybe we need to do things differently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the north does not change, the north will destroy itself. The country is moving on\u2026 If we don\u2019t listen, there would be a day when there would be a constitutional amendment that addresses these issues of quota system and federal character.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rest of the country cannot be investing, educating its children, producing graduates and then they watch us, they can\u2019t get jobs because they come from the wrong state, when we have not invested in the future of our own children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The emir said no northern leader can afford to be happy in the midst of problems facing the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The emir spoke on Monday at the Kaduna state government house during a programme to commemorate the 60th birthday celebration of Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna. Sanusi said as a leader, repeating the same thing and expecting a different result shows that something is wrong. He noted that the real change can only occur in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":12616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[326,96,901],"class_list":["post-21581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-el-rufai","tag-kaduna","tag-muhammadu-sanusi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The north will destroy itself if it doesn\u2019t change \u2014 Sanusi - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The emir spoke on Monday at the Kaduna state government house during a programme to commemorate the 60th birthday celebration\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/the-north-will-destroy-itself-if-it-doesnt-change-sanusi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The north will destroy itself if it doesn\u2019t change \u2014 Sanusi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The emir spoke on Monday at the Kaduna state government house during a programme to commemorate the 60th birthday celebration\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/the-north-will-destroy-itself-if-it-doesnt-change-sanusi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-02-18T17:46:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/07\/nas-El-Rufai.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"672\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/the-north-will-destroy-itself-if-it-doesnt-change-sanusi#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/the-north-will-destroy-itself-if-it-doesnt-change-sanusi\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"The north will destroy itself if it doesn\u2019t change \u2014 Sanusi\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-02-18T17:46:12+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/the-north-will-destroy-itself-if-it-doesnt-change-sanusi\"},\"wordCount\":320,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/the-north-will-destroy-itself-if-it-doesnt-change-sanusi#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/07\/nas-El-Rufai.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"El-Rufai\",\"Kaduna\",\"Muhammadu Sanusi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/the-north-will-destroy-itself-if-it-doesnt-change-sanusi#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/the-north-will-destroy-itself-if-it-doesnt-change-sanusi\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/the-north-will-destroy-itself-if-it-doesnt-change-sanusi\",\"name\":\"The north will destroy itself if it doesn\u2019t change \u2014 Sanusi - 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