Attahiru Dalhatu Bafarawa, a former governor of Sokoto State, Tuesday said that Northerners and indeed all Nigerians were not happy with the security situation in the country.
Bafarawa revealed this in his state of the nation address where he urged President Muhammadu Buhari to show more concern on insecurity than COVID-19, adding that insecurity had claimed more lives than the pandemic.
According to him, the government appeared to have abandoned the situation and channelled all its effort to a pandemic that had taken about 2000 lives in the country.
He said: “When I see things are not going, I cannot keep quiet, because if I keep quiet maybe other parts of the country will start accusing us that we are promoting what is bad. But, the reality is that we in the north are not happy with the way things are going.
Since then, the two have never met in any official function but for their dramatic encounter at the Sultan Abubakar III International Airport, Sokoto, months ago when they were reported to have traded words.
Some political analysts opined that the recent condolence visit by Bafarawa carried a lot of political undertones because Wamakko had lost many relations, including his daughter and younger brother who was the district head of Wamakko but Bafarawa did not visit to condole him until this time around.
“There could be a hidden agenda to this visit, considering how their bitter feud had lingered since 2007,” one analyst who sought anonymity said.