More Northern Groups Endorse Almustapha’s Unity Cause

The unity move championed by Major Hamza Almustapha for youth in the North received a boost from three northern groups yesterday. A press release jointly signed by Barrister Abubakar Kurawa, Alhaji Abdurrauf Musa and Comrade Abdul-Azeez Suleiman for the Northern Youth Progressive Movement, the Northern Youth for Change and the Northern Emancipation Network respectively, said Almustapha’s move is timely.
The joint statement said the initiative to bring the scattered youth causes in the region should not have come at a better time. It pointed out that Major Almustapha has even before his incarceration been known as a selfless champion of the youth all over the country.
The groups commended President Goodluck Jonathan for standing firm for justice which led to Almustapha’s release from a 14-year unjust detention.”It is regrettable that a group of self-styled northern leaders should fail to see the good in Almustapha’s unity initiative for their selfish reasons,
” the groups said.
They warned that no discredited northern power seeker would ever be allowed to drag the region into his personal war for ascendancy and perpetuation of monopoly of the entire available activity in the region at the expense of the majority.
“These people that have feasted on the thirst, toil and sweat of northerners by turning the whole region into their personal asset should know that there is a limit to deception and that the game is over.
“The earlier the exploiter class in the north realized that it’s out of the match and out of the cup, the better for them, ” the groups said.