{"id":201757,"date":"2022-07-07T09:08:49","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T08:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=201757"},"modified":"2022-07-07T09:08:49","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T08:08:49","slug":"2023-election-politicians-sowing-discord-among-nigerians-northern-elders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/07\/07\/2023-election-politicians-sowing-discord-among-nigerians-northern-elders\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 election: Politicians sowing discord among Nigerians \u2013 Northern Elders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Elders Forum has expressed concerns over the frightening level of identity politics ahead of the 2023 presidential election. <\/p>\n<p>The forum said politicians are dividing Nigerians with ethnicity and amplifying the country&#8217;s faultline. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/05\/20\/secession-northern-elders-blast-ohanaeze-for-demanding-spokesmans-arrest\/\">organisation<\/a> expressed its fears in a statement by its Director of Publicity and Advocacy, Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, in Abuja, on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>The organisation expressed concern over developments in many aspects of Nigerian politics as they relate to preparations for the 2023 elections and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement politicians are \u201cdesperately shepherding Nigerians into two irreconcilable religious divides, all in a bid to garner undeserved advantages at the expense of religious tolerance and coexistence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cThese developments threaten our already distressed democratic process. Our politics now operates outside safe and tolerable boundaries, and the nation will pay dearly for the desperation and limitations of those who ought to show leadership and responsibility among our politicians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not responsible to resist the urge to caution politicians only on the ground that many matters that will impact on our lives and the quality of our national existence are purely internal affairs of political parties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe search for a running mate for the APC\u2019s presidential candidate with religious faith of two individuals as the sole issue at stake represents a sad reminder that our politicians will not allow our democratic system to grow beyond the narrowest of confinements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNigerians take their faith seriously, but we are also painfully aware that the faith of our leaders has never been a factor in the manner we are governed. The political maneuvers in the APC now divert attention from serious issues around the quality of governance, and point to the danger that we are a multi-religious country whose citizens will pay dearly if one politician is not a Christian or Muslim.<\/p>\n<p>The melodrama around selection of the PDP\u2019s presidential candidate\u2019s running mate, and the role of Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike will remain constant reminders that power and wealth, irrespective of how they are acquired, have made our political process its hostage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ransom that will be paid to free our democratic process may be such that the nation cannot afford it. Our nation is being carved into strongholds controlled by powerful individual politicians who must be placated at all cost, and we will pay a huge price if these politicians succeed in stamping their personalities into the democratic process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmong a handful of other parties with the potential to make a difference, ethnicity and greed are threatening to frustrate the emergence of a nation with the capacity to turn around its fortunes in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of exploring options and opportunities that will improve their chances of giving Nigerians real and credible, we only witness frightening levels of hostility and ethnic chauvinism, as we saw recently in exchanges between Labour Party and NNPP leaders. Ethnic identity in particular looks capable of being elevated to a point where it alone can cripple a successful transition to 2023 and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur politics has become an additional burden on the Nigerian citizen, even dwarfing the spreading insecurity, poverty and cynicism over the prospects of our survival as one one nation. If the way our politicians are seeking power is any indicator for the quality of leadership they will provide, then the nation has a very genuine reason to worry over its future. Other leaders representing particular interests compound our worries with periodic threats and ultimatums that an already weakened leadership has no solution for.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe prospects for safe conduct of electoral activities and a free and fair election are being threatened by the conduct of our politicians. We must find the resolve and the strength to step back and pull the nation away from its current precarious position.What is at stake is more than an election. It is the survival of our country.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Elders Forum has expressed concerns over the frightening level of identity politics ahead of the 2023 presidential election. The forum said politicians are dividing Nigerians with ethnicity and amplifying the country&#8217;s faultline. 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