Things Getting Worse In Nigeria — Sultan, Gombe Governor

Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence, Muhammad Saad Abubakar and Gombe
Governor Muhammadu Yahaya have lamented things are not getting
better for the rich and the poor.

Speaking at the third annual summit of peaceful coexistence and
nation-building organised by Dawah Coordination Council of Nigeria,
DCCN at International Hotel Gombe, they admitted the standard of
living for almost all Nigerians have nosedived and the poverty
level is driving the poor into criminality.

The Sultan urged government at all levels to quickly address the
scarcity of food, stating it is causing increasing insecurity.

The Sultan said: “I know what I am saying and I can say it
anywhere. We must tell ourselves the whole truth, let’s not deceive
ourselves that things are getting better.

“Things are not getting better and the earlier we know this, the
better for us so that we can find means and ways of solving the
problem, it is as simple as that.

“We want to thank you, followers, for being patient with us but
being good followers does not mean you should not tell us where we
are wrong and where we are right.

“If we do right vote for us, if we do not do right don’t vote
for us. Nobody should force you to vote against the person you
don’t like, if they give you money, take and go and vote for the
person you think he is better. A hungry man is an angry man, we
must check the poverty level in this country,” he said.

Yahaya said three-quarters of the problems in Nigeria is caused
by the leaders.

He said: “I agree hundred percent that things are not normal in
this country and it is our own making. God has provided all the
benefits that we need in order to have a peaceful and harmonious
relationship.

“But because of the greed of some elites who are destroyers and
not producers. Really, if we go down, you will find that the
ordinary man is very hard-working, very innocent and self-contented
with anything but the greedy elements who want the whole world to
be their own will come in any shape and make them destroy
themselves.

“This fight is everybody’s fight. We must come together, we must
join hands and struggle. The origin of all these problems is tied
to the elites both traditional and political.

“The whole of the North is now in a crisis that if we are not
very careful, it may consume all of us. That is why today, their
target is no longer the ordinary or rich man, they also target the
Emir or Chief because the public system doesn’t work.”

Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence, Muhammad Saad Abubakar and Gombe
Governor Muhammadu Yahaya have lamented things are not getting
better for the rich and the poor.

Speaking at the third annual summit of peaceful coexistence and
nation-building organised by Dawah Coordination Council of Nigeria,
DCCN at International Hotel Gombe, they admitted the standard of
living for almost all Nigerians have nosedived and the poverty
level is driving the poor into criminality.

The Sultan urged government at all levels to quickly address the
scarcity of food, stating it is causing increasing insecurity.

The Sultan said: “I know what I am saying and I can say it
anywhere. We must tell ourselves the whole truth, let’s not deceive
ourselves that things are getting better.

“Things are not getting better and the earlier we know this, the
better for us so that we can find means and ways of solving the
problem, it is as simple as that.

“We want to thank you, followers, for being patient with us but
being good followers does not mean you should not tell us where we
are wrong and where we are right.

“If we do right vote for us, if we do not do right don’t vote
for us. Nobody should force you to vote against the person you
don’t like, if they give you money, take and go and vote for the
person you think he is better. A hungry man is an angry man, we
must check the poverty level in this country,” he said.

Yahaya said three-quarters of the problems in Nigeria is caused
by the leaders.

He said: “I agree hundred percent that things are not normal in
this country and it is our own making. God has provided all the
benefits that we need in order to have a peaceful and harmonious
relationship.

“But because of the greed of some elites who are destroyers and
not producers. Really, if we go down, you will find that the
ordinary man is very hard-working, very innocent and self-contented
with anything but the greedy elements who want the whole world to
be their own will come in any shape and make them destroy
themselves.

“This fight is everybody’s fight. We must come together, we must
join hands and struggle. The origin of all these problems is tied
to the elites both traditional and political.

“The whole of the North is now in a crisis that if we are not
very careful, it may consume all of us. That is why today, their
target is no longer the ordinary or rich man, they also target the
Emir or Chief because the public system doesn’t work.”