Dogara: Where are the northern elders who criticised Jonathan over insecurity?

Yakubu Dogara, speaker of the house of representatives, has
accused northern elders of being silent in the face of the
insecurity in the region.

The speaker said while the elders in Borno and other northern
states criticised former President Goodluck Jonathan over killings,
they have kept mum under the current administration.

Dogara said this on Thursday while speaking at the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) campaign in Nasarawa state.

He said the elders’ silence could be taken as “enabling the poor
management of security in the country, especially in the
north.”

“The 2019 general election is not about President Muhammadu
Buhari, it’s not about Atiku Abubakar, but I said it is about you
who are gathered here and it will be a referendum on insecurity and
hunger in this land”, he said.

“On the issue of insecurity, all of us know what is happening in
Borno and, unfortunately too, between Abuja and Kaduna, as well as
in Zamfara, Katsina, Nassarawa, Benue, Plateau and even Sokoto
states.

“The issue is this, when this thing was going on under Jonathan,
we had Borno elders always speaking. Where are the Borno elders
now? Where are the leaders of northern Nigeria now that this
problem has become endemic? What are they saying now?

“Are we not guilty of what we allow? Are we not responsible for
the killings by our failure to say that enough is enough and demand
a of right that President Buhari puts an end to this or leave if he
can’t?

“The truth is that if we don’t rise up to the endemic challenges
now, sooner than later, if things continue this way, we are not
going to have a country.”

The speaker also condemned “sycophants who elevate some public
office holders to the status of God” and called on Nigerians to
“rise up and rescue the country from the clutches of
insecurity.”