Governor Uba Sani of Kaduna State has remarked that prior leaders from the North in the last 20 years should apologize to the people for the troubles they are currently suffering.
According to Sani, everybody who has served in a political capacity during the past 20 years ought to examine themselves in the mirror and express regret to the people of Northern Nigeria for their disappointment.
In an interview with the Daily Trust newspaper, the governor said that he had no issue with people who are critical of the government.
Sani, however, voiced his disapproval of former zone leaders who are now criticizing the current administration.
According to the governor, the issue in northern Nigeria has existed for the past 20 years rather than just two years ago, and individuals who held government jobs at that time are partly to blame.
He said: “Why did we fight the military in the past? Because we were fighting for the people, we weren’t fighting to contest for the election. We were fighting because we want democracy to be entrenched in Nigeria. I don’t have problem with those criticizing the government .
“But when you’re fighting a government that you were part of, you contributed to the situation where it is today. Anybody from Northern Nigeria who held a political office in the last 20 years, all of us must look at ourselves in the mirror and apologize to the people of Northern Nigeria, we let them down.
“The problem of northern Nigeria didn’t start two years ago, we are looking at the trajectory in the last 20 years. I can give you the statistics and data. I know the poverty index of Northern Nigeria. I know the number of people in Northern Nigeria that are financially excluded.
“People tend to forget when Buhari was in power, he spent hundreds of billions towards social interventions. But I will tell you why the north became poorer even after that because 70 percent of people that live in northern Nigeria, particularly the masses, are completely financially excluded.
“Every human being, if you’re a former president, governor, vice president, senator, house of Rep member in the northern Nigeria in the past 20 years, I will tell you you are part of the problem. That’s is why I don’t believe we should deceive the northern Nigeria. That’s is why I don’t believe we should misinform them.”
