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Chief Joshua Dariye
By Anthony Maliki
A Northern Coalition Group, known as The Movement For A New Arewa, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari in his magnanimity to extend presidential pardon to former Plateau State Governor Joshua Dariye for the interest of peace.
The group observed that Chief Joshua Dariye who have been in prison since the inception of the present administration needs to breath an air of freedom as citizen of the country.
This was contained in a statement to Apex News Exclusive by National President of the group, Malam Abdulkareem Bayero and National Secretary, Alhaji Abdullahi Musa.
If the north is to be returned to its past glory then the likes of His Excellency, Joshua Dariye must be released from prison to joined in the peace building process.
Our coalition is dogged in its commitment to establishing a New North where trust, friendship, mutual respect, unity, and different ethnic groups will co-habit again peacefully, in the spirit of one north as preached, demonstrated, lived and died for by our founding fathers the Sarduanas, Tafawa Balewas, Sunday Awoniyis, Gowon, Joseph Tarkas etc.
If the broken and burnt bridges, of friendship, brotherhood and a healing process by all those who have been hurt, injured and aggrieved among the various ethnic nationalities the likes of Hausa Fulani,Tiv, Birom Gbagyi etc comes together in a round table to discuss the way forward and towards finding a lasting solution to addressing prevailing insecurity that had destroyed the north.
We must strive by all means to foster and forge unity and peace towards achieving a united north and by extension a united Nigerian as a people.
The group President continued further that we are all aware that insecurity has no respect for religion, ethnic group or region, therefore to avoid the disintegration of our country which has been deeply divided and polarised along religion and ethnic lines , our group remains resolute in our commitment to building and cementing a virile north through promoting peace, unity, religion tolerance and inter-ethnic harmony which the north is known for.
We commend the C-in-C President Muhammadu Buhari, Minister of Defence, National Security Adviser,Service Chiefs for their new approach of taking the war to the Bandits.
This renewed zeal by our military is no doubt yielding results in Zamfara, we call for extension to all the 19 northern states annihilate the bandits, kidnappers and all criminal elements. They must be addressed in the language they understands.
