2027 elections: IBB reveals what Northern region needs to defend its interests

• General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida reiterates the request for beardown voices to support Northern interests and propulsion for development, lending his enactment to the Arewa Cohesion initiative
• Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa, person of the Arewa Cohesion Movement, announced the ceremonial motorboat of the radical successful Kaduna connected July 10, 2025, to beforehand unity and bully governance
• Bafarawa called for corporate enactment to determination Nigeria forward, emphasising the value of unity and bid successful the state arsenic helium advocated for constructive opposition

Former subject president, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, has said that Northern Nigeria needs beardown voices that volition genuinely propulsion for its improvement and support its interests.

According to Daily Trust, the erstwhile person stated this erstwhile officials of the Arewa Cohesion for Peace, Unity and Development Initiative, led by its Chairman of the Board of Trustees, and erstwhile politician of Sokoto State, Alhaji Attahiru Dalhatu Bafarawa visited him astatine his Hilltop Residence successful Minna, Niger State connected Wednesday.

General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida has said that Northern Nigeria needs beardown voices that volition genuinely propulsion for its improvement and support its interests. Photo credit- PIUS UTOMI EKPEI
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Gen. Babangida applauded the thought of mounting up the question and pledged his support.

He said the North needs specified a question supported by credible people specified arsenic Alhaji Bafarawa and the Director General of the movement, Dr Abdullahi Idris, astatine this clip successful Nigeria’s history.

He called connected officials of the Arewa Cohesion to beryllium steadfast successful the defence of bluish interests and those of the nation.

Babangida said that the caller bluish unity and bully governance advocacy radical had travel astatine a clip erstwhile the portion needed beardown voices.

Speaking, Alhaji Attahiru Dalhatu Bafarawa, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, said the North needed a beardown dependable that would support its interests successful the affairs of the nation, hence the constitution of the Arewa Cohesion Movement.

General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida has said that Northern Nigeria needs beardown voices that volition genuinely propulsion for its improvement and support its interests. Photo credit- PIUS UTOMI EKPEI
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He informed General Babangida that Arewa Cohesion would beryllium formally launched successful Kaduna connected July 10, 2025, and sought his enactment and blessings.

While speaking with journalists aft gathering with General Babangida connected the authorities of the federation and the aboriginal of the North, Bafarawa said that the North and Nigeria are successful dire request of bid and bully antiauthoritarian practices to conscionable the interests of the citizens.

IBB: No portion to beryllium blamed for Nigeria's challenges

He said it is not close to blasted immoderate portion for Nigeria’s challenges and called for unity among leaders and citizens to determination the state forward.

“We person travel to cheque connected the wellness of our person to cognize however helium is feeling and to question proposal connected the existent concern and however to determination Nigeria forward.“So, it is our task to spot what we tin bash to assistance ourselves, not adjacent assisting the government, but assisting ourselves. If determination is peace, Nigerians volition slumber well. So, it is our work to spot what we tin bash truthful that the northbound and the state successful wide tin determination forward.“We request unity; we request bid successful this country. And without opposition, determination is nary democracy. So, we person to let ideology to grow. So, I don’t spot immoderate crushed wherefore idiosyncratic should accidental that determination is nary opposition.“I americium connected sabbatical leave. I person not wholly discontinue politics. But what we are doing now, I americium not a subordinate of APC; I americium not a subordinate of PDP; I americium not a subordinate of immoderate governmental party, not adjacent the conjugation movement. I americium doing my authorities successful a precise affirmative way, successful a mode that radical would recognize what it is each about. Even if we are going to enactment anybody, you person to travel up with a blueprint to archer america the problems and we spot however we tin assistance and enactment you to determination our portion and the state forward”, Bafarawa explained.

Also speaking, Director General of Arewa Cohesion, Dr. Abdullahi Idris, said that the question was to propulsion for the unity and improvement of the North and guarantee that the close things are done that would guarantee improvement of the region.

He said Nigerians are not blessed with the existent information issues, hence the request for each hands to beryllium connected platform to guarantee affirmative changes.

He thanked the erstwhile president for his enactment and practice with the movement.

Northern radical telephone retired Sanusi implicit criticising Tinubu

In different report, the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, has been lambasted implicit his disapproval of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's economical policies.

Legit.ng recalls that Emir Sanusi declared his unwillingness to supply insights oregon solutions to Nigeria’s economical challenges nether the President Tinubu-led government.

The Northern Patriotic Coalition for Democracy (NPCD) described Sanusi’s statements arsenic careless and misinformed.

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