Open Letter to Northern Elites and Politicians: A Call for Conscience
By Bala Salihu Dawakin kudu.
April 30, 2025
To our so-called Northern political bigwigs and self-proclaimed elites,
You parade yourselves as leaders of the North, but in truth, many of you have become nothing more than political merchants, auctioneers of the people’s future. Politics, which should be a noble calling of service, has been reduced to a business empire and sadly, the North has become your political market.
You have established political markets not institutions of leadership, but marketplaces of betrayal in Kaduna (North-West), Gombe (North-East), and Abuja (North-Central). These are not places for the masses or the civil servants. These markets are filled with “Ghana Must Go” bags stuffed with money to buy loyalty, silence opposition, and drown truth.
You claim to represent the North, yet the poor, the unemployed, and the displaced do not see you. You surround yourselves with wealth, while almajiri boys roam our streets, our youth are turned into political thugs, and our educated sons and daughters are left jobless and hopeless. You do not rule like leaders, you drive like camels in the desert, blind and directionless, yet arrogant enough to believe you’re on course.
Mr. President’s tactics of crushing opposition are nothing but a systematic assassination of democracy. Winning an election in one party only to cross over to another after collecting money is not politics — it is betrayal. And it is shameful that many of you are comfortable being sold and bought like livestock at a market.
The most disturbing of all is the way our governors, especially those from opposition parties, are jumping ship, defecting to the ruling party not because of principle, but out of fear — fear of arrest, fear of exposure. Where is your backbone? Where is your dignity?
You sold us out. And now the rich politicians dictate everything — even how many times the average northerner can eat in a day. We are left with hunger, poverty, and an unemployment crisis that forces our youth into crime or begging. This administration has not lifted us — it has only oppressed us.
We must wake up. Northern Nigeria is bleeding, not from outside forces, but from the hands of its own sons. You — the so-called elites — have failed us. And until you choose the people over your pockets, we will never know peace or progress.
This is not a letter of hatred. It is a cry of truth. We will not be silent while you dance on the graves of our dreams.
