2023 Zoning: The Northern Elders Forum Is Provoking The South To Secede-COSNY

2023 Zoning: The Northern Elders Forum Is Provoking The South To Secede-COSNY

It is quite unfortunate that the Nigeria's security agencies are playing the ostrich whenever a northern leader makes a provocative statement against the South.

The recent utterances of one Hameed Baba Ahmed, spokesman for the Northern Elders Forum is not just vexatious but highly provocative.

This is not the first time leaders from the North are making inflammatory comments against the South, yet the presidency is not bothered because they are from a particular region.

The northern leaders have awakened our consciousness and also made us know that our foolishness is unbecoming.

One wonders how the northerners were able to acquire over 75% of oil wells in the Niger-Delta if not for our foolishness. Our foolishness has so reduced us to the point that the northerners now see us as second class citizens and lesser humans who they exhibit uncontrolled anger and frustration on.

Almost all the loans taken by the administration is being used to develop their places, empower their people and even extend infrastructural development to neighbouring Niger Republic they consider more of a brother than the Southern Nigeria.

In terms of appointments; the current administration made sure all the sensitive security posts are occupied by the northerners, same way they occupied 90% of NNPC and CBN top positions.

In all, who do we blame? The greed and foolery of the southern leaders are the reason why they are insulting us at will.

The three Southerners at the top level of government are only concerned about their families and friends, while allowing the North to have their ways in every sector of our economy and nationhood.

While we remain peaceful and committed to the sanctity of one Nigeria the northerners are seeing us as their slaves, thereby reducing the office of the Vice President to mere errand services. How can the North head the Executive, Legislative and Judicial arms of Government if truly the South is not foolish?

In a constitutional democracy, how can only the North head 95% of our security architectures? No federal character, no quota system whenever the President is appointing his people.

If not for our foolishness in the South, why will Zamfara and most northern states that generated almost zero revenue as VAT receive more money than majority of southern states and we are quiet as if all is well.

The North remembers quota system when it has to do with education, intellectual capacity and sports, but throw it to the bin when it comes to appointment into sensitive positions that have to do with funds.

Why will they not boast with their imagery, useless and unproductive population when our southern leaders value their stomachs more. 

The South had every opportunity to correct this abnormality through restructuring when Goodluck Jonathan and OBJ were president of the country, but they chose to be gentlemen.

Hameed Baba Ahmed and his co-travellers should have it in mind that the South will either produce the president in 2023 or we go our separate ways.

Enough is enough.

Christian Moses Abeh,

Coalition of Southern Nigeria Youths.