The Arewa Northern Youth Leaders’ Forum
have slammed the 19 northern
governors for not doing enough to
protect President Muhammadu Buhari
in his moment of trial. The group, in a statement by their
national president Alhaji Adamu
Mahmuda on Sunday, said they
observed that Buhari had been left on
his own since the controversy on the
issues surrounding his health and well being began. According to them, instead of
informing their citizens about the true
situation surrounding the President,
the governors had engaged
themselves in schemes and underhand
deals meant to favour them to emerge as vice president in the event that
Buhari does not complete his tenure.
The group said apart from Governor
Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano who
organised a prayer session for the
president some months back, the rest
were busy either inviting party leaders
to their states so as to intensity lobby for their vice presidential bids or busy
holding clandestine meetings to serve
their interest. It said though it was within the
governors given rights to aspire for
whatever positions, they should
remember that most of them would
not have won their elections if not for
the strategy of identifying with the overwhelming influence of Buhari.
The group said for some of the
governors to try to pretend the
occasion does not call for their open
support and agitation was an act of deception that had not gone down
well with the populace. “The northern governors who won
their elections for merely identifying
with Buhari have all of a sudden gone
asleep not wanting to be drawn into
any issue surrounding the health of the
president.
“After benefiting from his campaign
and support through the provision of
bail outs and other handouts for them
to run their states, we find it extremely
uncharitable for the governors to have
gone so cold when the occasion demands they should rise up and
reassure citizens in their states that
there is no cause for alarm and that the
president is only taking a rest.
“Nobody is fooled by their ‘see no evil,
hear no evil posture’ which is
deliberate so as not to make them
appear too supportive of the president
for fear that that might make them
lose out in case the president decides not to continue. But this is wicked,
selfish and insensitive,” the group
stated.