Balarabe dropped this bombshell in a chat with Sunday Sun at his Kaduna home while answering questions on many sensitive national issues.
He noted that southern Nigeria is 40years ahead of the north in terms of educational advancement and this, he said, is a sign of great danger for the country's unity.
He said: “For instance, at the moment now we have major problems which we must face and solve as a country. Free education development is central to any form of national development. At the moment now because of historical development, the North is 40years behind the South in educational development.
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“If this condition continues, there is no way we can have national unity, there is no way we can have even development, there is no way we can avoid the North being the problem of Nigeria. It is a fact, and we have to face it.
“If we have people like the Nnamdi Azikiwe, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Sir Ahmadu Bello and so on, their contributions to development would have continued, we will not have problem of even development, particularly in the educational sector.
“Let’s not forget that because of the colonial policy, the North was left behind right from 1950. For instance, by the time I left school in 1951, there was no single secondary school in the North. And therefore, a northerner could not go straight to university. He had to go to the South; that was in 1943 when there were about 100 secondary schools in the South.
“And this disparity has continued up till today, and we are calling on Nigerian leaders to know that this is a threat to peace, to national unity and even development of the whole country.
“But Nigerian leaders, particularly, the present crop of leaders, don’t listen to this. But they now have to listen because we want peace and progress, and there is no way we can we have peace and progress if a section of the country does not have equal rights to participate in the affairs of the country, and you can’t have the equal rights to participate in the affairs of your country if you have this disparity in educational development.”
In a related vein, suspended House of Representatives member representing Kuru/Bebeji federal constituency Abdulmumin Jibrin, a staunch supporter of President Muhammadu Buhari, has attacked northern political elites who he accused of working only for their own interests rather than for the development of the region.
In series of tweets late on Sunday, March 19, Jibrin said the northern elites are behind Nigeria’s problems
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