Scores of Northern Nigerian youths leaders met in Kaduna yesterday and slammed President Goodluck Jonathan’s Special Adviser on Value and Ethics, Mrs. Sarah Jubril? for attributing insecurity in the country to Northerners.
The North, according to national president of Arewa Youths Forum (AYF), Alhaji Gambo Ibrahim Gujungu, received the news not only as? a big surprise but also as evidence that the special adviser was insensitive? to have said that Northern youths were behind the continued security challenges currently rocking the region and the country.
The youth group insisted? that Jubril was insincere as government’s insensitivity to the plight of the unemployed youth of the region as well as the extra judicial killings going in the country were the real security issues in the north.
Speaking to newsmen in Kaduna,? Gujungu? said that Northern leaders were disappointed over? Jubril’s remarks and accused her of trying to? instigate the government against them.
He insisted that, “the insecurity in Nigeria is not peculiar to the North alone and we are wondering? why Sarah had never? ascribed such to leaders in the South especially in the Niger Delta region where militant groups had held the nation to ransom until when late President Yar’Adua of Northern extraction, brought the situation to normalcy through the amnesty programme.
?Nigerians should beware of Sarah Jubril who is not helping matters through meaningful dialogue, we challenge her to tell the world? the number of times she met with any youth group in the region over the spate of bombing and killings in Maidiguri, Kaduna ,Suleija or Abuja. AYF is a coalition of youth groups from across the North, there was no time she had dialogued with us or any of our associates on issues about peace. Sarah Jubril was only visible during the Presidential campaigns and was busy talking against those she perceived as her adversaries in the PDP. Now that she is engaged by the PDP government, she has turned against the Northern leaders,”
Gujungu added, “Northern leaders are busy discussing ways that could bring lasting solution to current impasse.The Sultan, religious clerics, Borno elders and their counterparts from other states in the North should not be easily wished away by the likes of Sarah Jubril,” the youth leader said.