Emeka Esogbue
By now a lot of Nigerians from the north and south are asking to know the problem with Alhaji Tanko Yakassai that should frequently make him promote the cause of divisions between the north and south.
Yakassai has become an old man whose opinions are not worth taking into consideration incidentally, only pressmen seeking cheap juicy news pay him visits to extract inept and irrelevant comments without recourse to how dangerous such comments are to the corporate existence of the nation.
The Yakassai that the younger generation ordinarily should be learning from has become a self-appointed representative of the north thus a negative progression from a known political activist and nationalist to an ignored lone diversionist and mischief-maker voice so that questions are being asked on whether he is suffering from old-age illness, has been paid by loyalist or simply derives pleasure from putting one region against the other. It appears that this man has not studied the nation very well to realize that he has been part of the nation that has lost relevance in the world map very soon, especially the northern region that has ruled the same nation for more than 30 years and only bequeathing sad poverty to its teeming citizens.
In developed countries of the world, old men who have attained the age of 80s simply retire to their family compounds to take deep rest but occasionally offer advice to the best of their knowledge having studied mistakes made in the past with a view to correcting them but this has not been the case with Yakassai who was never a soldier yet spoiling for war with southerners each time he comes from the blues to add fuel to the already tensed up situation between the north and south.
Most sane people would have disregarded this old man but because it is dangerous to do so because of the implication it would have on the nation, many of his kinsmen from the north have written him off. Hon Abba Anas Adamu from Jigawa State insists he is suffering from old age or acting someone's script. Col. Abubarka Umar (Retd) reasons he is not in the act free of charge or because he believes in it but because somebody has paid him to do so.
To Yakassai, anything that is not of the north is not worthy to exist. In then, he appears to be living in a world of the past foe centuries with ancient beliefs that have been outmoded by recent events by many centuries. While prominent people from the north are challenging their leaders for leading to the nation to inglorious years of neglect and poverty which did not spare the north, Yakassai's thinking is far from representing actual events. Alhaji Aliyu Babangida recently commented in which he stated that the north has become the problem of the Nigeria federation. One wonders whether Yakassai realizes this.
Only today, the daily sun reported a statement credited to the old man titled "battle Not Over, Yakassai Warns Jonathan" In it he warned that "We will fight. We will fight to ensure that rotation is retained in PDP. We will insist that the rotation remains till the north gets its full tenure of eight years. And thereafter, if the country wants to abandon the concept of rotation altogether, then we will consider it". A statement like this only portrays senility because it sends no sense to anyone but only shows that the old man is only interested in the concept of rotation only if it benefits the north.
He obviously does not look beyond his nose forgetting that the north too is part of the nation. It is disappointing to discover the kinds of people that ruled us in the past, people who are not fit to rule in animal kingdoms. These are people that children in kindergarten of nowadays will effectively educate in modern issues including politics.
Yakassai went on to tell us that "Jonathan is out to settle scores with Northerners and friends of Yar' Adua citing the reconstitution of the cabinet, the sacking of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Group Manager, the reassignment of of officers of Northern extractions from the key positions in the NNPC in favour of Niger Deltans …within 48 hours the new Petroleum Minister, Alison Madueke's assumption of office, the threat of removal directed to EFCC's Farida-waziri…" In fact, continuing this endless and nonsensical quote will annoy anyone.
What the old man Yakassai fails to understand is that the impatient Nigerians have become tired of underdevelopment and poverty visited on them and are search of an honest and result-oriented person whether from the north or south that can deliver them from the hands of evil. It little matters now whether such a leader is from the north or south. What matters is economic revival.
It is for this reason that the people same for the greedy ones who look forward to benefits have collectively rejected Ibrahim Babangida who is seeking to recover the key he forgot at Aso Rock Villa. Does is make sense even to a kid that Farida-Waziri is facing threat of sack? Was Nuhu Ribadu another northerner not removed to make way for her? Where is Iwu of INEC? Was Humphrey Nwosu not removed by Babangida to annul the now infamous June 12 Election?
Journalist who have arrogated Yankassai's home to theirs for juicy news should watch it else they would have no one to report to if his comments sets fire on the nation.
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