The previous Senate President and Interim APC Chairman, David Mark has warned that Northern Nigeria is in dire straits, insisting that solely daring, collective efforts can reverse the area’s regular decline.
Mark additionally declared that the ADC is the one political occasion ready with the imaginative and prescient and resolve to deal with the deepening crises within the North.
Mark mentioned this on the third expanded assembly of the Nationwide Political Consultative Group (North), held on the Abuja Continental Lodge.
The gathering drew occasion members and supporters from throughout Nigeria.
Addressing the theme, “Unity and social cohesion as panacea to the challenges dealing with Northern Nigeria,” Mark painted a bleak image of the North’s worsening insecurity, rising poverty, and rising social fragmentation.
“These challenges didn’t develop in a single day nor will they disappear till we resolve to take deliberate, collective and decisive motion. We should first admit that we’re the architects of our issues, we should cease the blame recreation if we really and genuinely wish to discover a lasting resolution,” Mark mentioned.
He careworn that disunity, apathy, and inaction have solely made issues worse, urging northerners to embrace the values that when made the area thrive.
“Division has value us progress, whereas indifference and inaction have continued to deepen our division. If we’re to beat our current travails, we should return to the rules of justice, fairness, mutual respect, and shared objective that when made Northern Nigeria a beacon of hope, peace, unity and growth,” he mentioned.
He added that, “The time for lamentation is over. The North is bleeding profusely, and we’re the one ones who can heal it. Allow us to commit as we speak to reject hate speech and divisive politics, put money into unifying initiatives—schooling, healthcare and infrastructure, maintain one another accountable for our actions and inactions and shake palms throughout the divide and restore our bond of brotherhood.”
He added, “If we do these, I’ve little doubt we are going to rebuild this area right into a powerhouse of not simply peace and social cohesion but in addition of financial progress, human ingenuity and compassion.”
Mark expressed deep concern over the toll a decade of violence has taken on the area, pointing to banditry, insurgency, and communal conflicts which have devastated rural communities, displaced tens of millions, and stifled financial progress.
Regardless of Northern Nigeria’s considerable pure and human assets, he lamented that the area stays trapped in poverty, with a number of the worst statistics within the nation on illiteracy, unemployment, and infrastructure decay.
