President Jonathan Gathers Arms Ahead Of 2015 - Northern Nigeria Traditional Rulers

The Northern Elders' Forum (NEF) have
yesterday raised the concerns that President
Goodluck Jonathan might be gathering arms
for unknown reasons ahead of the 2015
general election.
At the meeting with the Northern Traditional Rulers
Council in Kaduna, Kaduna State, the NEF stated
they are opposing relocation of sophisticated
weapons to Southern parts of the country.
The group have also alleged President Jonathan is
having secret agenda in choosing to convoke a
national conference.
The group's spokesman Solomon Darlong told the
Hausa Service of the Voice of America in Abuja
that they support only a Sovereign National
Conference the outcome of which will uphold and
determine the corporate existence of Nigeria.
Furthermore, Darlong also maintained that the
North is being short-changed and victimized in the
Federal civil service as it accounts for only 16
percent of the total workforce. He said NEF are
against injustice, and divisive politics towards
Northeners aimed to win elections.
"And we want the national conference to hold after
2015 elections but if they said it must be, then we
want sovereign conference whose
recommendations will bind on the country," he
stressed.
The traditional rulers held consultations behind
closed doors under the leadership of the Sokoto
Sultan, Alhaji Muhammad Sa'ad Abubakar. He was
quoted as saying that the region must be frank and
sincere in handling the problems confronting it.
It would be recalled that in his famous December
2, 2013, letter to President Jonathan, former
President Olusegun Obasanjo made the same
disturbing claim as the Northern traditional rulers.
"Allegation of keeping over 1000 people on political
watch list rather than criminal or security watch list
and training snipers and other armed personnel
secretly and clandestinely acquiring weapons to
match for political purposes like Abacha and
training them where Abacha trained his own killers,
if it is true, it cannot augur well for the initiator, the
government and the people of Nigeria," he wrote.

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