The Sultan of Sokoto Sa’ad Abubakar has blamed North for the present
insecurity in the region. The traditional ruler said the same was true
of the underdevelopment the people are suffering.
Sultan Abubakar who is also the President of Nigeria’s Supreme
Council of Islamic Affairs stated these at the Northern Nigeria
Governors Peace and Reconciliation Committee meeting in Kaduna on
Monday. He blamed northerners for inflicting heavy pains on themselves.
“Let us sit and talk freely and articulate positions that will
bring us out of the quagmire we put ourselves. It is important that
religious and traditional rulers from our various states sit together,
so that each and every one of us will talk freely for us to articulate a
position as the way out of this problem we find ourselves.
“We northerners have put ourselves in a quagmire, because whatever
that is happening in the North is our own doing. This was because we did
not do what we are supposed to do. And since we know that, we have to
solve our problems ourselves. So, I think, it is not a bad idea that the
committee was set up,” he said.
Speaking on the efforts of to bring peace to the country, the Sultan
said. “We wrote a memo of about nine pages or thereabout covering
various issues affecting the country and the north in particular to the
then Acting President and now President Goodluck Jonathan, through the
Nigeria Inter Religious Council, NIREC, where we suggested solutions to
the problems.’’
In his own remarks, the Catholic Bishop of Abuja, Cardinal John
Onaiyekan, attributed the security challenges facing the North and the
country in general to high level of poverty in the country and the
region in particular.
Onaiyekan further said that another aspect of the problem was
associated with religion, saying that, bad image of the country has
spread to the outside world and there was need for the stakeholders to
address the issue with a view to putting a permanent end to the
problems.
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