Northern Nigeria, even with the obvious deficit in its capacity for the resolution of crises, is desperately trying to prove that it is a functional entity.
The engagement of the presidential candidates was clearly an initiative that represented the climax of all the agitations over the existing crippling challenges in the North. All the issues that were thrown up by either the organizers or the individual candidates have always been the basis of the loud complaints by the Northerners to which the attention of the leaders at the various levels is continuously being drawn.
Expectedly, insecurity to which human lives and wealth are consistently being lost is a problem that each of them has vowed to tackle. It was with virtually an equal amount of emphasis that they, in their respective presentations, analyzed security and re-affirmed determination to come up with effective counter-measures that can lead to the speedy decimation of the power of the various categories of violent criminals.
Such other objectives as the drastic reduction of the number of out-of-school children through their enrollment in either conventional schools or skills acquisition centres as well as the development of the Northern economy are of utmost priority to each of the candidates. They all have recognized the fact there are enormous endowments in the North which need to be harnessed for the purpose of the attainment of economic development.
The unity and corporate existence of the country got the required attention during the sessions as evident in the numerous clarifications and arguments made by each one of them about his identities. It was while commenting on the contention over the emergence of the next president from any particular part of the country that Atiku made a statement that generated harsh reactions from his opponents who sharply criticized him of nepotism.
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