Kehinde Fajobi
Senator Shehu Sani has urged northern stakeholders to embrace national reforms, stating that the region’s poverty and hunger stem from mismanagement rather than divine will.
Speaking to staff of the New Nigerian Newspapers in Kaduna on Wednesday, Sani, who represented Kaduna Central in the 8th National Assembly, emphasised that the North possesses abundant resources, a large population, and favourable conditions.
He argued that the region’s challenges are man-made and avoidable.
“The North has no reason to fear any reform. The North has no reason to be hungry. We have the population and resources; we have no reason to be poor,” he said.
Sani criticised northern leaders who have prospered through investments made during the Sardauna era, urging them to give back to the communities that supported them.
“I want to use this opportunity to call on leaders from the North who have benefited from Sardauna’s investments to look back and give back. There is no president or governor or lawmaker who has not benefited from the benevolence of Nigeria.
“Most of them have poor parents who would not have been able to afford the education they have, from primary to university.
“It is now that some of them have amassed wealth that they are sending their children to school abroad and even going for medical tourism,” he added.