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Africa-Press<\/a> – Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Attahiru Bafarawa, former Sokoto State Governor, has declared that Northern elders are angry with President Muhammadu Buhari over his poor handling of insecurity in the country.<\/p>\n

Speaking in Abuja yesterday, the former governor said thousands of people were displaced in the North while the government spends billions on COVID-19.<\/p>\n

He said if the North fails to speak out now, they won\u2019t when Southerner becomes president.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cWe can\u2019t keep silent because our person from the North is in power. If we don\u2019t speak, when a Southerner becomes president, we won\u2019t have the right to express our feelings.<\/p>\n

\u201cThousands of people are displaced in the North and in other parts of the country. Instead of the government to spend N400 billion on COVID-19 vaccines, why can\u2019t we spend it to buy security equipment? Insecurity is our Coronavirus in Nigeria.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe threats and acts of armed banditry, cattle rustling, kidnapping and other forms of arson being perpetrated in our region and Nigeria, in general, is taking an unnecessary dimension to the level that no sane society would watch and wrap up everything in the hands of the government.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of us as members of the society should bear it in mind that while the government does what it is supposed to do, we should also be seen to contribute our quota towards achieving the desired goals of ridding our society of these acts of barbarism.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe should resolve that we could use any legitimate means through interaction, in the forms of meetings, conferences, and any other means possible to identify areas which border on insecurity issue and reach out to the government or its agencies for the purpose of generating ideas on how best the government could tackle the menace.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. Attahiru Bafarawa, former Sokoto State Governor, has declared that Northern elders are angry with President Muhammadu Buhari over his poor handling of insecurity in the country. Speaking in Abuja yesterday, the former governor said thousands of people were displaced in the North while the government spends billions on COVID-19. 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