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The national leadership of Arewa Youth Forum (AYF), at the end of an emergency meeting today in Kaduna urged the 19 Northern Governors to shun President Goodluck Jonathan’s antics and grant amnesty to Boko Haram and all the other groups responsible for the restiveness in Northern Nigeria.

In a statement signed by its president, Gambo Ibrahim Gujungu, AYF said that this position has become expedient because the North is on the verge of “extinction and collapse,” and that there may no longer be a Northern Nigerian region as a political and geographical entity within the larger Sovereign State of Nigeria.
The group criticized the federal government’s politics, sophistry and insensitivity in handling the Boko Haram insurgency which it said, has further compound the challenges confronting Northern Nigeria.

Gujungu, who sent the strongly-worded press statement to SaharaReporters New York office, further said that posterity will hold the governor’s accountable if they don’t act fast.
“As at today, our economy is gone; the aged-long togetherness of Northern Christians and Muslims is totally gone,” the statement said.
“There is also no political cohesion in the North. And there is no sign that this ugly trend can be contained, if the Federal Government continues its flagrant display of insensitivity and nonchalance then, we will be threading the path of fire and bloodshed.”