Nigeria cannot survive without the north

- Ibrahim Ahmadu Coomassie said the country cannot survive without the north - The northern leader urged the elders to help change the reputation of the region - He lamented that the region has been bedeviled by terrorist attacks Ibrahim Ahmadu Coomassie who is the chairman of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has said that Nigeria cannot survive without the north and urged leaders from the region to save its reputation. Leadership reports that He said this when he received the leadership of the foremost northern women socio-cultural organisation, Jam’iyya Matan Arewa (JMA).

The Arewa leader said the region has been portrayed in a negative light since 1999 and there was need to change this perception. He said: “We all know that without the North, Nigeria can never survive. We still stand by it. But now is the time to walk the talk in the interest of our people. “Chibok girls are still missing. Now it has gone to Dapchi in Yobe State, what happened? Are we always going to be the victims?
Boko Haram, see what they did to the Northeast. They have spread over to the North-central and even to the southern part of the country. “Should we continue to be regarded on the negative side? No. We are leaders in our own right and we must exercise this responsibility for our people”, he stated. “Whenever there is crisis, women and children are always the major victims. Enough is enough. We are proud that you have come forward to meet us to discuss this issue.”

Meanwhile, the coalition of civil society groups against terrorism in Nigeria accused international rights organization, amnesty international of what it described as its judgmental reports on the security situation in the troubled North eastern part of the country. According to a statement issued jointly signed by its convener and registrar, Comrade Odeyemi Oladimeji and Atani John respectively, “Nigerian Security Forces ignored warnings about Boko Haram attack on Dapchi” as totally undeserving and a joke taken too far by Amnesty International, at the expense of Nigeria’s Internal Security and sovereignty.