The National Coordinating Council NCC for Obidient Movement (NCCOM) has said that the northern youth were tired of the killings in the zone and therefore desperately in need of the rescue Peter Obi and Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed promised if elected.
According to the group, “for every one killing in the south, there is a 100 of that in the north.”
Speaking at a world press conference in Abuja, national coordinator Council of the Obidient Movement Adang Azi Adang called on Nigerians to disregard the reports that the north would not vote Obi.
They said, “The northern parts of this country are all Nigerians and they are feeling the brunt of what is happening in this country. If one person is killed in South, you can be rest assured that almost a hundred is killed in the North. The agricultural produce, the lands in the north have been ravaged.
“The northerners cannot go to their farms to farm, their economy is completely going down the drains, if you want to travel from here to Kaduna, you will have to pray and fast. I want to tell you that the northern youth feel this particular heat more than anybody, therefore, there is no way anybody can say in their own thinking that the north would not vote Peter Obi.
“It is practically impossible. I just came back from Katsina, Kaduna, Kano and Jigawa. l was amazed with what l saw about Obi. If any of you have been watching, you must have seen how people came out en mass to support the candidature of Peter Obi and Datti Baba Ahmed.”
Some of the national coordinators of the Council of the Obidient Movement that were at the briefing are: Adang Azi Adang 11, Director of Strategy, Dr. Olu Olumese Hillary, Director Secretariat, Efuru Nwapa-Obua and Director of Resource Mobilisation, Danjuma Musa Ipeyen.
In their speech, they said, “The NCC is made up of patriotic and mostly young Nigerians across geopolitical and ethno-religious lines who believe in a more prosperous, united, secure, and peaceful Nigeria.
“This is a Movement that is organically built by Nigerians of like minds who are concerned over our increasing national woes ranging from an intolerable and high unemployment rate to insecurity of lives and property.
“We are therefore on a mission to reset Nigeria to fulfil her foundational mandate where “peace and justice shall reign”. A Nigeria, where social justice and institutional democratic values are well respected so that the “labours of our heroes past shall not be in vain.
“This has become more exigent now as the country is fast drifting and descending towards the dire precipice of collapse, comparable only to the path taken by a few failed States in Africa and Asia. The urgency to rise to the occasion at this critical juncture compels self-reflection and a compelling need for patriotism that is driven by the zeal to save Nigeria as opposed to vested interests.
“There is no doubt that Nigeria under President Muhammadu Buhari is bedeviled and buffeted by a myriad of security challenges never seen or experienced since our independence in 1960.
The country has indeed been confronted with diverse security threats ranging from election violence, census crises, ethno-religious conflicts, communal clashes, militancy, and terrorism but most of these were either localised or sporadic before this administration.
“Unfortunately, what we have been witnessing since 2015 is the amalgamation and molten mix of all these crises, all happening simultaneously, unhindered and in a terrifying fashion across Nigeria. Nowhere is safe in the 36 States of the country with road, rail and air travels constituting a nightmare for Nigerians.
“The country is under the siege of terrorists, bandits and other criminal gangs holding sway over swaths of ungoverned territories from the North to the South, East, and West. The most disheartening of these challenges is the fact that there is a well-orchestrated plan by foreign terrorists with their sponsors to cause more havoc and entrench a chaotic atmosphere and a dangerous agenda.
“While the daily killings and bloodletting of Nigerians have continued unabated under the All Progressives Congress (APC) led federal government. To make matters worse, President Buhari’s administration from all indications looks dazed, clueless and incapable of taming the deteriorating economic and political situation in the country.”
