Former Chairman of the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, Prof. Ango Abdullahi, has said that the North has failed the region and the entire country.
He called for a proper political culture, adding that elder statesman, Aminu Dantata once told him that the North must accept that they have failed the region and sit together to discuss the way forward without which there would be progress.
Abdullahi spoke as the chairman during the launching of a book titled, ‘Court and Politics,’ written by Dr. Umar Ardo, a former associate of the ex-Vice President, Atiku Abubakar.
“Enough of our failures. Something else must give way to our failures. We have failed this country. This must stop,” he said.
“Time has come for us to go back to the drawing boards to rescue this country.
Narrating his encounter with an elder statesman, Aminu Dantata, Abdullahi said Dantata was angry with northerners because they failed the North.
“I visited Dantata and he was very angry with me, saying the people of the North have failed the North and Nigeria. Until the North accepts that they have failed the North and sit together to discuss the way forward, there won’t be progress.
“We gathered in 1978 when we wanted to return to civilian rule. We were to discuss why the system of 1961 failed but we were shocked when they said the parliamentary system of government was not going to be discussed and that we should go for the federal system of government.
“And they gave us two options: that of the French and America. And now we have practised the presidential system for 24 years and it has failed and I will score it F9.
“Time has come for us to go back to the drawing board so that we can save this country,” Abdullahi stated.
