Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, spokesman of the Northern Elders Forum says the north is a rich region and can survive on its resources without support from southern Nigeria.
Baba-Ahmed made the statement on Tuesday, September 21 when he featured on a programme aired on Arise TV.
He was reacting to the recent tussle between southern states and the federal government on the collection of Value Added Tax, VAT.
His words:
We are a rich region and we can live on what we have, even if we don’t have the billions that accrue to other states. Our poverty is not a kind of problem that we would break this country over. “We need leaders, the current governors don’t recognise this.
Otherwise, they won’t be involved in this argument; allow the court to decide. “Agriculture is a major asset; we have land, we have water, we have livestock, we have minerals that are literally begging to be picked from the ground but our governors are too focused on the pittance that they are getting. This is wrong.”
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September 21, 2021
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