Insurgency: North’s calm nature has kept us from speaking out – Datti Baba-Ahmed

A chieftain of the Peoples Redemption Party, PRP, Datti Baba-Ahmed, says the calm nature of Northern Nigeria has kept them from speaking out on insurgency.

Baba-Ahmed stated this on Thursday while featuring in an interview on Trust TV.

He noted that some other parts of Nigeria are able to come out with civic democratic and political issues like insecurity and the exchange rate but northerners have remained calm even though they suffer the same fate.

“I’m a Northerner. I’m a proud Muslim. We’ve had insecurity all over the North, but our calm nature, our tradition, and everything has not up to date allowed people to come out and speak.

“In the South West, because of their culture, which is not bad, it is actually good. Even the meekness and the docility in the North, I’m not saying it’s bad in certain senses, it is good because there are different counts that a northerner, a Muslim, will defend his right. Do blasphemy and see. Ethnicity in the North Central, do it and see.

“But some other parts of Nigeria are able to come out with civic democratic political issues like insecurity and exchange rate.

“Remember Band A. Do you think they will ever challenge Band A in Borno or in Sokoto? No! But say anything about religion, it’s there,” he said.