Ango Abdullahi: Withdraw your statement against northern leaders now, AYCF tells Reps member Datti
- AYCF has berated a federal lawmaker, Garba Datti, over an attack on northern elders
- Datti reportedly said that Prof. Ango Abdullahi and the northern leaders criticise Buhari's government because of their selfish interest
- The national president of the group, however, lambasted Datti over the comment
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A lawmaker representing Sabon Gari federal constituency of Kaduna at the House of Representatives, Garba Datti, has come under a serious verbal attack over his comment against the Northern Elders Forum(NEF) and its chairman, Prof. Ango Abdullahi.
Legit.ng reports that the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF) in a statement issued by its national president, Alhaji Yerima Shetimma, described Datti's comment as disparaging and provoking.
The group said it was seriously upset because of the disrespectful manner in which the lawmaker attacked the personality of Prof. Ango and NEF, which according to it, is the most respected group of prominent northerners telling the truth to power.
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It said that the professor's vehicle was once decorated with bullets for standing with and struggling to have Buhari at the top, adding that the prominent leader escaped death by the whiskers.
Datti was reported to have said that Prof. Ango and other eminent northerners inside NEF were in disagreement with President Buhari because the president didn't give them job.
The group said:
"It was infantile of Hon Datti, as a northerner and lawmaker of the federal republic to stoop so low by indulging in a cheap campaign of calumny against both the NEF and Professor Ango Abdullahi, a former vice-chancellor of ABU, a democrat and close associate of late MKO Abiola".
"The likes of Hon Datti are the ones responsible for the current backwardness of the north by deliberately hiding the truth about our troubles, in the desperation to get into the good books of the executive arm of government. By the way, how many motions has he ever raised since his inauguration as Rep member? How many Bills has he ever initiated as a lawmaker."
The group also declared that given the way and manner Datti overlooks the dire situation that the north is currently facing, he may not even be a Nigerian in reality.
AYCF, in the statement, queried:
"Most importantly, how many times has Hon Datti rose on the floor of the lower chamber to make a case for the north? Is his selfish attack on Professor Ango and NEF not an indication that he has no idea what contribution to make in the media for getting the North out of the woods."
Shettima, however, demanded Datti to withdraw his unguarded statement against leaders of the region and stop bringing the image of the House of Representatives to ridicule by being openly and unjustifiably sycophantic.
He added:
"This is the of kind of brigandage you get from a lawmaker, who is constitutionally empowered to check the excesses of the executive arm but is now turning against the interest of his constituents, by making pretenses that all is well with the north and the call for action by NEF was unnecessary."
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Meanwhile, Legit.ng had previously reported that two days after Prof. Ango Abdullahi alleged that many people from the north were killed in the southeast during the #EndSARS protests, northern elders disowned him over his statement.
It was reported that the chairman of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) on Tuesday, December 8, in Port Harcourt, Rivers state alleged that most violent acts against northerners were perpetrated by Igbo.
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