[size=18pt]2011: Arewa youths threaten to mobilise against Northern govs[/size]




Written by Hassan Ibrahim, Kaduna Tuesday, 20 July 2010

Unless the Northern State governors unanimously agreed to support the zoning formula so that the North, would produce the president in 2011, hundreds of youths in Kaduna, on Monday, under the aegis of Arewa Defense League, threatened they could disown the governors and mobilise against them in future elections.

Speaking to newsmen after its meeting, the President of the league, Murtala Abubakar, said it was sad that the arrangement which paved the way for President Goodluck Jonathgan to reach his present position, was tactically pushed to the background.

The youths insisted that the north would not sit back and watch the unfolding scenario while the future and interest of the region was mortgaged for selfish personal interest.

They lamented the “the body language of the governors of the north and other political leaders” saying all Northerners should  kick against the zoning arrangement and  must understand that the issue of zoning was slowly and steadily being understood as an agreement in good faith that was being betrayed by those that ought to be respectable politicians from the south.


http://www.tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/8489-2011-arewa-youths-threaten-to-mobilise-against-northern-govs