The Coalition of Northern Groups has criticised the Yobe Disclose Governor, Mai Mala Buni, for asserting residents in the North-East are currently drowsing with their two eyes closed.

In an announcement signed by the Particular Adviser to the Senate President on Media and Publicity, Ola Awoniyi, on Sunday, Buni hailed the President, Predominant Favorite Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) for his untiring efforts at restoring peace and normalcy to the anxious North-East.

Nonetheless reacting, the spokesperson for CNG, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman, said, “If Buni, a governor in a single of essentially the most susceptible states in North, has said that the North sleeps with both eyes closed, then it is melancholy. This has no doubt confirmed the prolonged-held peril that most governors, in particular in the northern states, both are residing in isolation or are in deep and deliberate denial.

“It moreover proves that leaders comparable to this are the ones who’re blockading the President from totally appreciating the magnitude of the problems going throughout the nation round security and the financial system. While it could well maybe also fair no longer be out of space to claim that ahead of the approaching of this administration, when it comes to the total North changed into a battlefront, and the nation changed into a hostage of Boko Haram, recently there could be a vastly improved ambiance in North-East states with Boko Haram pinned to enclaves.

“It is miles, nonetheless, a infamous exaggeration and untruth to claim that your total of northern Nigeria is so ranking that folk sleep with their eyes closed.”

Suleiman added that it changed into a serious pains when elected leaders space extra top fee on the dictates of their private political expediency at the expense of the welfare of the folk they lead.

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