Northern youths under the aegis of the True Northern Youths and Elites has called on the Northern Elders and Leaders to atop misrepresenting them as they claim most of the views of the statement of these groups are absurd and unreasonable.
The group in a open letter titled ‘Stop speaking on our behalf and stop misrepresenting our interest’ signed by the National Secretary, True Northern Youths and Elites, Mohammed Hassan Abuja, the group proclaimed that the northern leaders and elders are protraying northerners as cowards.
“We, The TRUE NORTHERN YOUTHS AND ELITES, reject the disappointing and disheartening statement by the northern groups, calling on the fulani herdsmen back to the north, it shows a sincere sign of weakness and cowardliness. Its absurd and unreasonable. We accept the idea of serving people their own medicine. As long as they occupy our lands we will occupy theirs. Tits for Tats.
“We, the northerners are so disappointed, baffled, irritated and ashamed to call these groups or people as the sole protectors of our northern heritage and interest. Our northern so called leaders are so “Weak” to even retaliate with bare words.
“Why can’t the Northern Governors and Traditional Rulers place a heavy tax and embargo on our southern allies that carry-out their business activities and resides in the north?
“For your information my dear “Elders and Leaders”, you cannot achieve a peaceful negotiation when you bring a pen and a paper to the negotiating table while your counterpart brought an RPG or AK-47 to the table. You can only “Fight Fire With Fire”.
The group declared that Northerners have tolerated all the selfish and intolerable utterances from their southern counterpart adding that the Southern Elders should call ita youths to order.
“Northerners have tolerated enough selfish, unimaginable, intolerable, and barbaric utterances from their southern counterpart. Most of these sponsored informed and uninformed youths from the south that see it fit to open their mouth and insult north and the northerners at any given time, should be called to order by their elders or we will start retaliating back. For your information Southerners are also living in all parts of the 19 northern states.”
The group who lamented in the deteriorating state of security in the north stated that the northern elders and leaders should not forget what the north and northerners stand for.
“When did you become blinded by your political and leadership tussle that you forgot what the north and the northerners stands for?. We categorically supports the idea and agenda of North before Nigeria.
“Believe you me, Nigeria is a colonial experiment gone wrong. The security situation in the north has highly deteriorated due to the negligence of our selfish, private jet shuttling, dollar and naira collecting governors.
“Any idea or program initiated nationally that will benefit the north is perceived as anti-south agenda, and the full wrath of the southern media houses will be placed on it until they kill that initiative either by using tribal, regional or religious sentiments.
“We really pity our northern comrades who always envisioned a positive out come from this failed experimental union called “NIGERIA”. Most of my so called elites will disagree with me because they are still holding on to the delusion of making it work, for better or worst.
“Stop lying to yourselves and stop lying to us, please take a single dose of reality to clear your vision and get your priority straight. North and South are not one and can never be one even in the next life. We are socially, economically, religiously, culturally and ethnically different.”
The group further called on the northern elites and the President to reveal the status of the murder case of Major General Alkali and the status of the murder case of Hausa residents of Ile-Ife.