Insecurity: Dogara urges Northern Elders to speak up

...As Atiku promises 70% appointments to youths, women

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has challenged northern elders to speak out against the ravaging insecurity in the region.

Speaking on Thursday at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Rally in Lafia, Nasarawa State, the Speaker noted that Nigeria is witnessing destruction because enablers have resorted to worshiping an individual and comparing such a person with God.

According to him, next month’s General Election is a referendum on education, insecurity and hunger.

He expressed concern that besides Borno State, insecurity has now escalated to Kaduna, Katsina, Zamfara, Benue, Plateau, Sokoto, Nasarawa States among others.

Condemning the conspiracy of silence by Northern elders, Dogara who is currently seeking reelection, said: “When these things was prevalence in 2015 we had Borno Elders, where are Borno Elders now? Where are the leaders of northern Nigeria, where this problem has become endemic? What are they saying? The truth is that if we don’t rise to the challenge sooner than later if things continue this way we are not going to have a country.

“So it is our responsibility to rescue Nigeria from the clutches of insecurity, because without security we cannot even understand the meaning of democracy.

Earlier, the PDP Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abukakar, declared that insecurity is escalating in the country because the All Progressives Congress (APC) administration does not know how to govern.

He added that the APC is not campaigning because it plans to rig the forthcoming election.

Atiku who promised to address unemployment crisis, pledged to give 40 percent of his government to the youth and 30 percent to the women, “making a total of 70 per cent, this is because I want you to succeed us.”