The Northern Youth Assembly (Majalisar Matasan Arewa) has condemned the utterances of former Kano State Governor, Engr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso on Northern founding fathers who served the country and the North in particular patriotically and with honesty.
The condemnation was contained in a press statement signed by the Secretary General of the Assembly, Hafiz Garba PhD and made available to Viewfinder in Kano on Friday.
The Assembly described the alliance between Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso and Peter Obi popularly known as OK (Obi/Kwankwaso) Movement as anti North and contradicts principles and values of what the North stands for decades ago.
“Kwankwasiyya Movement’s Alliance With a Political Family That Disrespects Northern Icons Represents the Final Abandonment of Everything the Movement Once Claimed to Stand For”.
The statement further stated that, Kwankwaso alliance with Obi has clearly contradicts his (Kwankwaso) claims of championing the values of our founding fathers like Sardaunan Sokoto, Ahmadu Bello and the Prime Minister of Northern Nigeria, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa while in government.
“There is a particular kind of political betrayal that is more devastating than the ordinary kind, more wounding than the simple defection of a politician from one party to another, more consequential than the routine abandonment of a campaign promise, and more permanently damaging to a political legacy than the inevitable compromises that governance demands of every leader who takes responsibility for the difficult and imperfect business of running a state”.
The Secretary of the Assembly also said that, the Idea of Kwankwasiyya Movement directly mismatched the ideology of Peter Obi who supports a terrorists group known as IPOB.
The Assembly has called on Kwankwaso to withdrew from the alliance with Peter Obi and publically appologise to the North which he benefited from for many decades but disrespect the founding fathers for laying the foundation united and peaceful North in particular and Nigeria in general.
“The question that Kwankwaso must answer, and that the north has every right to demand his answers clearly, directly, and without the evasion that has so far characterised his public statements on this issue, is this: how does a man who spent thirty years building a political identity on northern pride, northern dignity, and the unapologetic defence of northern interests now stand silently beside a political movement that has publicly denigrated the Sardauna, diminished Tafawa Balewa, and dismissed the legacy of Sheikh Usman Dan Fodio, and expect the communities whose pride, dignity, and interests he once claimed to champion to follow him into that alliance without question? Where is the repudiation? Where is the statement of condemnation? Where is the Kwankwaso who once presented himself as the north’s most authentic champion, the man whose red cap and white babban riga were symbols not merely of personal political style but of a genuine and deeply felt commitment to the dignity and the historical honour of the region he claimed to represent?”.
The Assembly described Kwankwaso as an embarrassment “Kwankwaso now stands as the most leading political embarrassment and disappointment of the Northern Nigeria Region and the ideology of which our forefathers had built the region and died for”.
