The Arewa Economic Renewal Forum has said that poor leadership has been the major reason for the high poverty rate in northern Nigeria.
Speaking at the event, the Chairman of AERF, Ibrahim Yahaya, said it had become compelling for anyone vying for the position of the president to come up with a strategic blueprint to economically transform the north.
“Over the years, Nigeria and especially the North have suffered an epileptic form of leadership borne out of a lacklustre attitude of elected persons to engineer the much-desired economic prosperity by exploiting regional assets, demographic potentials, geologic advantages and agricultural benefits for economic, infrastructural and human development.
“No doubt, the size and dimension of the population of the Northern region displaces in terms of size any other African country apart from Nigeria itself.
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