Andrew Mshelia, a Kaduna based journalist has asked northern politicians to focus on how to address the security challenges bedevilling the region.
In a statement on Friday in Kaduna, Mshelia lamented that rather than finding solutions to terrorism and kidnappings ravaging the northern states, the political elites were more preoccupied with the politics of relocating the headquarters of the Federal Airport Authority (FAAN) and some Departments of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
He urged them to “as a matter of national unity redirect their energy towards ending banditry and terrorism that are bedevilling the north,rather than playing ‘Mammy Market’ politics with the planned relocation of some CBN departments and FAAN headquarters to Lagos state.”
He said, “it is a misplaced priority for a region which its citizens cannot sleep with their two eyes closed due to kidnapping, terrorism and other social vices to have lost their voices in that direction only to play politics with agencies that do not belong to one region alone.”
Mshelia noted that “if the sudden voices of the Northern politicians were there long before now, banditry and terrorism would have ended without firing a single shot.”
He added that, “the North at this point, owes other regions the duty of supporting the federal government, just as other regions have been supporting leaders from the north, including the failed administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari.
Mshelia warned that “playing such dangerous politics over the planned relocation of FAAN and some offices of the CBN does not put the northern region in goodlight in the scheme of things in the country.”
He said, what the Tinubu adminstration needs at this point in time is a collective effort towards “rebuilding Nigeria of our dream.”
