Christian Elders warn of looming revolution in the North

Northern Christian Elders Forum has cautioned leaders in the region to tread softly to avoid an imminent civil revolution.
In a release signed by the NOSCEF chairman, Evangelist Matthew Owojaiye and secretary, Engr. Iliya Yusuf, the Forum said the North is in a big mess with the danger of a pending revolution, urging the northern political and religious leaders that it is not too late to prevent a bloody revolution.
Titled: ‘Northern Moslem Elders Are Afraid: Revolution Is Coming,’ the Christian Forum warned their Muslim counterparts in the region to desist from blaming the Jonathan administration for the woes of the region, arguing that since the northern Nigeria has produced nine heads of state, “how come the people are poor when their own people have been in power most of the time?”
The Forum argued that the youths of the region are beginning to realize that the biggest enemy they have were not the innocent Christians they have been fighting all the while, but their own local leaders who had continually used them to prosecute their own political objectives.
According to NOSCEF, the nation was stunned recently with the news that over 80 per cent of oil blocs are in the hands of 11 northerners, while only one is a Christian. “The only Christian among them is distributing his money all over the country including a recent donation to Ahmadu Bello University the sum of N2.3 billion”.
What to do to avoid impending holocaust in the mould of the Arab Springs, the Forum suggested is general repentance on the part of northern leaders while coming together to arrest the growing mass poverty in the region.
“This they can do by tasking the 10 oil bloc owners the sum of N10 billion each as well as political office holders who had over the years milked the northern youths dry to provide employment for the youths of the region rather go cap in hand to the Federal Government for an imaginary amnesty programme,”NOSCEF stated.