By Jude Opara
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alwan Hassan, has dismissed claims of the growing issue between the federal government and Northern Nigeria, insisting that the region’s real challenge lies not in infrastructure but in the issue of ethnic and religious disunity.
Speaking on Politics Today on Channels Television and monitored in Abuja yesterday Hassan dismissed claims of an issue, insisting that certain northern groups and opposition figures, such as the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), are not representative of the north true interests.
“This group of people the ACF, the opposition we have tackled them before under the late President Muhammadu Buhari, and we will still do it this time,” he said.
“They are not for the North, and that’s what I want to make clear.”
Hassan emphasized that the main issues facing Northern Nigeria go beyond infrastructure development, stating that what the region truly needs is unity across ethnic and religious lines.
“Infrastructure is not the problem of the North. We don’t need infrastructure from the federal government. What we need is unity,” he stated.
“An Idoma man cannot become governor of Benue State. A Muslim in Plateau State cannot become Speaker of the State House of Assembly. A Christian minority in Borno State cannot be governor. These are our problems religion and tribe,” Hassan said.
“Let there be one religion and one tribe and that should be the Northern Nigeria,” he said.
He further cited the economic potential of the North, pointing to the region’s vast resources and landscape.
“We have 424 local governments, each with economic potential. We own the land in Nigeria fertile, versatile. Let the federal government come to us and partner on that,” he concluded
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