The recent statement by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, that the north should not vote for southern candidates is anti north and anti unity in Nigeria.
It is a statement that seeks to perpetuate poverty, illiteracy, backwardness and gross underdevelopment in the north. The north has held the north to ransom for too long and need change. If there is any section of the country that needs drastic turnaround; a section that needs new brain to bring real time development and change, it is the north. There is no doubt about this fact. The north needs a turnaround more than any other region.
Atiku Abubakar reportedly made the unimpressive statement during an interactive session with the northern political leaders under the aegis of Arewa Joint Committee at Arewa House, Kaduna. The group is holding the session with the major presidential candidates, of which Atiku took the first turn. Atiku, it would be recalled, enjoyed strong support in 2019 in the South-East and South-South but the emergence of Peter Obi appears to be threatening his party’s stranglehold in the two zones. His chances now clearly depend on improving his support in the north.
With the three northern zones said to have the majority of registered voters, Atiku, who is from Adamawa State in the North-east zone, is gunning to have advantage over his two southern rivals if voters are swayed by primordial sectional sentiments. Primordial ethnic sentiments did not give Muhammadu Buhari the presidency thrice until he was backed by the South-West zone whose candidate, Bola Tinubu of the ruling APC, Atiku is now urging the north not to vote for.
Having said that, a glimpse into the anomie in the north shows that the region is the most backward in Nigeria judging from any developmental index. Basing on the three Human Development Indexes , namely life expectancy, education, and per capita income, it is obvious that virtually all the states in North fall within the low human development index of 0.539 as of 2019.
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