By Chijioke Kingsley
Abuja (Sundiata Post) – A former youth president of the Christian Association of Nigeria (YOWICAN), Engr. Daniel Kadzai, has slammed a group known as Arewa New Agenda (ANA), for accusing President Bola Tinubu of Short-changing the northern Nigeria.
Kadzai said the group is selfish for also saying that they will withdraw their support for rotational presidency, saying that northern Christians also have numeric numbers to determine who becomes the president of Nigeria.
The Scribe-Man was responding to a news story credited to the president of the group, Sen. Ahmad Abubakar Moallayidi, where it ventilated the frustration faced in the current administration led by President Tinubu.
Sen. Moallayidi, claimed that Northern Muslims have the number to always keep the Presidency in the North, alleging that the Presidency shifting to the South has relegated the northern region to the background that has brought insecurity and other social voices to the region.
Responding, Kadzai who was disappointed by the falsehood, said former President Mohammadu Buhari had just finished eight years as president, which was characterized by insecurity, hunger and economic hardship, and yet the Muslim north kept mute in the face of all that happened in the Buhari’s government.
He said Fulani herdsmen were killing people in their numbers yet the Arewa New Agenda did not utter a word.
“Even the fuel subsidy removal was not orchestrated by President Tinubu but by his predecessor, Buhari, who began partial removal of fuel subsidy in 2023 and had told Nigerians that the subsidy will finally go in June 2024.
“This country belongs to all of us. Some group of people should stop claiming ownership of it. I am from Adamawa State, just like Sen. Moallayidi. So we are all from the North and none of us is more Northerner than the other.
“President Tinubu should be given time to fix the damage done by his predecessor, rather than this early criticism. It is barely 10 months into this administration and some groups are already crying short-change, who is deceiving who?, Kadzai said.
