The pan-northern socio-political organisation, Arewa Consultative Forum, rose from an emergency meeting with non-governmental organisations on Sunday and declared that President Goodluck Jonathan had failed the region in terms of security.
It said there was a deliberate attempt to emasculate the north economically, reduce its numerical strength and divide its people along religious and political lines.
The ACF, through its Chairman, Ibrahim Coomassie, stated that the general belief was that the Jonathan administration never liked the North.
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