The Coalition of Northern Groups, (CNG), has expressed displeasure with the Northern Governors under the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for their late minute concession of the right of Northerners to seek partys presidential ticket”, describing it as treacherous.
For the APC governors from the North to take such a weighty decision at the expense of the collective interest and future of the North, amounts to arbitrary treachery and blatant abuse of privilege, the CNG said, in an issued statement by its Spokesperson, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman.
The Group further said the decision was also clearly a brazen breach of the standard democratic practice by the selfish Northern Governors who, according to them, see power as an end in itself.
The move, aimed mainly at serving the vice-presidential ambitions of the State governors without minding its unforseen consequences on the future of the larger population of the North, is not only undemocratic but a betrayal of the regions past leaders who toiled and paid with their lives to ensure a strong, prosperous region.
It also points to a cowardly cave-in by those who pose as Northern leaders today to the threats, intimidation and blackmail of the southern political elites.
This act of treachery and betrayal shall certainly not go unnoticed, and in the fullness of time, the governors would be called to account for the consequences of their selfish compromise by this and coming generations of Northerners, Suleiman said.
