‘Northerners Are Used To Adversity’ – Reno Omokri. But Must They Be Kept Continually In It ?
The Oasis Reporters
January 20, 2023
In responding to “Dear @MizNma27”, media influencer and former self acclaimed “Buhari tormentor”, Reno Omokri says:
” Many Southerners do not know the North and work on assumptions. Northerners are used to adversity. For example, in 2019, the state with the highest insecurity was Borno. Yet, Borno had the highest voter turnout with 41.18%”.
Dear @MizNma27,
— Reno Omokri (@renoomokri) January 19, 2023
Thanks for your feedback. Many Southerners do not know the North and work on assumptions. Northerners are used to adversity. For example, in 2019, the state with the highest insecurity was Borno. Yet, Borno had the highest voter turnout with 41.18%.#TableShaker pic.twitter.com/G9YqMBRekW
Who knows what he is basing his assertions on ?
NIGERIA'S NORTH WEST ZONE…..2022
— StatiSense (@StatiSense) January 19, 2023
7 of the top 10 most Out-of-School children are in the North West.
The first 5 of the top 10 most Multidimensionally Poor States are in the North West.
4 of the top 10 most kidnapped victims are in the North West.#StatiSense
(NMPI/NST)
The question that he ought to have answered, whether asked or not, ought to have been, do northerners want an improvement on their circumstances for the better?
The overwhelming answer would definitely be a resounding yes.
But it is only those who have mastered the art of evil and know how to profit from it try extremely hard through several devices to keep the northern region in “the adversity” that it is in, as described by Reno Omokri who had a part of his early childhood upbringing in feudal Sokoto State where food begging Hausa majority live in, ruled by feudal kings of the Fulani minority tribe.
It doesn’t really matter that the region has about twice the landmass of Nigeria, food hunger is almost basic there.
Therefore anyone trying to unlock the huge agricultural potentials of the region for the economic prosperity of the north and the nation is seen as an enemy.
Vast portions of the north are inhabited by indigenous Christians with other portions lived in by indigenous Muslims. But each time the north puts forward a presidential candidate, it’s almost always from the Fulani ethnic group who have not yet shown dexterity in profiting the region, the way the British colonial masters turned Hong Kong around for the better after 150 years of colonial rule.
The opposite is the case in northern Nigeria.
Check the recent appointment into board membership of the interventionist agency for the Niger Delta, ( the NDDC) from the north:
On the Board are, Alhaji Mohammed Kabir Abubakar (North Central), Alhaji Sule-Iko Sadeeq Sami (North West) and Prof. Tahir Mamman, SAN, (North-East).
There’s no single Christian in the list from the region.
Whereas Christians are believed to be at least 45% in the north east (Adamawa, Bornu, Taraba, Yobe, Bauchi, Gombe), perhaps 30% in the north west (Sokoto, Zamfara, Kebbi, Kano, Kaduna, Katsina, Niger, Jigawa) and an overwhelming majority in the north central (Benue, Plateau, Kogi, Kwara, Nassarawa). Yet only one identity is given to them.
At the present moment with insecurity swallowing up the land, food hunger has risen with alleged Fulani herdsmen and bandits often accused of preventing farmers from accessing their farms, when they are not murdering each other in blood chilling morbid propensities.
That must have been a side of the adversity Reno Omokri was talking about.
Therefore the political rise of Peter Obi with his message of security, peace and economic prosperity for all is seen as a problem from the retrogressive oligarchs, who have hired some southern media influencers to bring down the image and soaring popularity of positive change agents.
