INSECURITY: Most northern leaders that used to attack PDP govt are now dumb, says Sen Sani

Senator Shehu Sani 

Shehu Sani, former senator who represented Kaduna Central in the 8th senate, has accused some northern leaders of hypocrisy over insecurity in the region.


He said most of them who were constantly challenging the past government over insecurity have now lost their voices under the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, while leaving the people to speak for themselves in protest.

Most of the Northern leaders,Islamic Clerics,Politicians,Senators,Governors and Youths that used to challenge the past Government on issues of insecurity have now lost their voices under this dispensation;The people are now left to speak for themselves in protests.

— Senator Shehu Sani (@ShehuSani) June 16, 2020

He wrote, "Most of the Northern leaders, Islamic Clerics, Politicians, Senators, Governors and Youths that used to challenge the past Government on issues of insecurity have now lost their voices under this dispensation; The people are now left to speak for themselves in protests.

Meanwhile, a coalition of nine Arewa youth groups yesterday had given the Federal Government 14 days ultimatum to address the security problem in the north or face mass action.


The Coalition said in 2015, the North came out enmass to vote for president Buhari hoping that as a retired army general, he will end insecurity in the country. But they never knew that it was a wrong choice.

The Coalition said: “It is on a sad note that this coalition wishes to remind the Federal Government and government at all levels, that the primary responsibility of government anywhere, particularly the one that was democratically elected by voters, is to protect the lives and property of citizens.




“Recall that Nigerians, particularly Northerners, voted President Muhammadu Buhari enmass to power in 2015 in anticipation that as a former military head of state, and a retire General, he is positioned to deal decisively with all forms of threats to the security of our people, particularly challenges of Boko Haram that had caused hardship and unprecedented destruction of lives and economy activities.

‘’Alas, five years into President Muhammadu Buhari’s tenure, instead of reducing insecurity, it has escalated, thereby exposing great numbers of our people to avoidable deaths and loss of property in a manner that history has never witnessed before.

“It is our constitutional duty to raise voices and call attention to the killings that are taking place across states of the Northern region on a daily basis and mobilize citizens on how to constructively engage government at all levels and make demands to end the killings.



“The coalition is saying enough is enough and an end must be put to the mindless killings of our people, particularly in the villages, and the nonchalant attitude displayed by government and its agencies to the plights of people going through horrific experience in the hands of criminals that seem to have overwhelmed our security agencies is unacceptable.

“The coalition strongly supports the idea of community policing and calls for its immediate implementation nationwide.



“The coalition reiterates here that enough is enough and it can no longer tolerate mindless killings of innocent citizens of northern Nigeria without the government doing much to stop it. The Coalition from today (yesterday), June 15, 2020, give a 14-day ultimatum to the federal government to end killings in the entire states of the north.

‘’After the expiration of this ultimatum, any reported case of killings will leave the coalition with no option than to mobilize citizens to take to streets until government does the needful.