Former Emir of Kano State, and former governor of CentralcBank of Nigeria, Muhammad Lamido Sanusi, has faulted Nigerian elite over continued crisis and killing in Nigeria.
While speaking in Lagos, the former Emir said, the elite are causing ethnics and religious crisis in other to tap the national cake.
Sanusi made this known while speaking at The Platform, an annual conference organised by the Covenant Christian Centre in Lagos, on Thursday.
He said Nigerian politicians are only fighting for their personnel pockets and in the process cause deadly crisis that affected the masses.
He said, “Ethno-religious crisis is not so much from Nigerians but the Nigerian elites. We have identities in Nigeria but the construction of opposing identities, the political process, is basically the Nigerian elite competing among itself for a share of the national cake.
“I don’t think that the people who say they are fighting for Hausa, Igbo or Yoruba are really interested. I mean when they get there at the end of the day, it is about them and their families.
“There is nobody out there that is really representing north or south or east. They claim to be if you look out there in the cabinet. In the history of Nigeria, there has never been a government that does not have people from every part of the country.
“So the first thing to recognize is that we must get away from the sense that holding political office is what makes you representative of a people.”
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