{"id":24130,"date":"2014-03-10T23:05:10","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T22:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=24130"},"modified":"2014-03-11T10:09:26","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T09:09:26","slug":"northern-leaders-accuse-jonathan-of-marginalization-lament-insecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/northern-leaders-accuse-jonathan-of-marginalization-lament-insecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Leaders Accuse Jonathan of Marginalization, Lament Insecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"messagecontent\">\n<div>\n<div id=\"messagebody\">\n<div>\n<p>Some leaders of thought from the North who gathered at Tahir Guest Palace,<br \/>\nKano, for a two-day Conference of Leaders and Elders of Northern Nigeria<br \/>\nhave accused President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan for systematically<br \/>\nmarginalizing the region for political reasons, while calling on all<br \/>\nstakeholders, groups and daughters and sons from the North to come<br \/>\ntogether and speak with one voice.<\/p>\n<p>They decried the spate of insecurity and poverty ravaging the region.<\/p>\n<p>Borno Elders Forum at the conference expressed surprise over the continued<br \/>\nsilence of the Federal Government, as well as the deliberate<br \/>\nnon-implementation of the reports on the insurgency ravaging some parts of<br \/>\nthe North, particularly Borno State.<\/p>\n<p>In a goodwill message to the Conference of leaders and elders of Northern<br \/>\nNigeria, titled: \u2018\u2019 State of the North\u2019\u2019 which was convened by an Elder<br \/>\nstates man, Alhaji Maitama Sule, in Kano yesterday, Borno Elders raised<br \/>\nalarm of the humanitarian crisis that has rocked Borno State, following<br \/>\nthe incessant and continued gruesome killing of innocent people in the<br \/>\nState.<\/p>\n<p>The Borno Elders noted that the current security challenges in the North<br \/>\nEast, particularly Borno State calls for a serious concern, not just from<br \/>\nthe citizens of the affected states but by the generality of Nigerians.<br \/>\n\u201cThe current security challenges that we are battling in the North-East of<br \/>\nNigeria and articularly, Borno state calls for a serious concern, not just<br \/>\nfrom the citizens of the affected states, but of Nigeria in general.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA situation where an entire community is wiped out, places of worship<br \/>\ndestroyed without recourse to even women, children and the elderly is not<br \/>\njust condemnable, but barbaric and cannot in anyway be linked to a<br \/>\nparticular religion. Sometimes, one will ask \u2018are these people really<br \/>\nhuman?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs for those of us that are from Borno, we have been seeing hell; our<br \/>\npeople are constantly decimated, especially in the last few weeks. Our<br \/>\ntowns and villages razed, properties destroyed, schools and places of<br \/>\nworship burnt, even innocent travelers were not spared. This is the<br \/>\ncatastrophe that should be condemned by all. In fact, a declaration of a<br \/>\nmourning period throughout the North is even necessary,\u201d Zanna stated.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In his address at the Conference of Elders, titled: \u2018\u2019The North: A Past in<br \/>\nthe Future\u2019\u2019, Dr Hakeem Baba Ahmed lamented that the people of the North<br \/>\nare today without leaders, who will take a stand on the National<br \/>\nconference and convince the nation to respect that position.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Ahmed regretted that the North has leaders, who will move against the<br \/>\ncrippling assaults on lives and property of its poor and defenceless<br \/>\ncitizens because power is in the hands of people, who as pear too are far<br \/>\nremoved from Northern interests.<\/p>\n<p>Among others, Alhaji Maitama Sule, the Dan Masanin Kano, who is the<br \/>\nconvener of the conference of Northern leaders said it is held to unite<br \/>\nthe North, so as to remove religious and tribal differences to enable the<br \/>\nNorth speak with one voice.<\/p>\n<p>Maitama Sule, who emphasized that the North is united condemned the use of<br \/>\nreligion to divide the North, and called on the Federal Government to<br \/>\ndeploy its might to halt the wanton killings in the North East, adding<br \/>\nthat both religions preach love, peace and not violence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some leaders of thought from the North who gathered at Tahir Guest Palace, Kano, for a two-day Conference of Leaders and Elders of Northern Nigeria have accused President Goodluck Ebele&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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