USA Africa Dialogue Series - The arrogant North by Adewale Maja-Pearce

I was reading with amusement a communiqué from the Northern Elders Forum. Nothing new, alas. It begins by saying that the ‘majority of the northerners...are far more politically conscious of the two broad regions that make up Nigeria’, and laments the ‘dangerous trend’ by the Jonathan administration ‘aimed at weakening the determination of the North to reclaim its traditional position of providing leadership for the Nigerian polity’.

After taking a swipe at the traitors among them who have agreed to fall for Jonathan’s divide and rule tactics, it reiterates its long-held belief that the North has a divine right to rule – ‘it is the almighty that has destined it so’ – which alone has kept the country ‘stable and secure’.  All said and done, ‘The North is only asking for what it does best in Nigeria: leadership.’

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