In 2015, the Coalition of Northern Groups expressed sorrow over its decision to support President Muhammadu Buhari.
The group expressed its regrets through Abdul-Azeez Sulieman, its spokeswoman, at the sensitization and awareness conference that CNG organised on Wednesday, September 28, 2022 in Kaduna.
“The North has been abandoned to a critical security situation with its widowed women, children orphaned, youths maimed and killed and people displaced in thousands. Politicians and leaders we have elected have prospered, but the bulk of us are left jobless, homeless, helpless and hopeless.
“The establishment protected itself, but not the citizens of our country. And while these elites celebrate with their families in world capitals, there has been nothing to celebrate for struggling families all across our land.
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“Indeed, the north made a mistake in 2015 so that the deliberate commission or omission of the people we trusted with power has inadvertently isolated the region politically, economically and socially as a result of which, the once portent and progressive region is today begging not only for food but for a place in the nation’s future political arrangement.”
He went on to say that the election in 2023 will be unique because, in today’s society, the question of whether the people control the government, rather than who or whose party is in power, is what counts to the majority of people.
He said it was time to take a detour and challenge the established quo because voting based on religious, racial, and sectional sentiments had not favoured them.
Comrade Jamilu Aliyu Charanchi, the group’s national coordinator, bemoaned the fact that rather than addressing the problems as they arise, previous leaderships found it more convenient to use them for either political gain or to further their own narrow interests in dividing the area along ethnoreligious and sociocultural lines.
