Justcash:
As United State's Secretary of State, John Kerry's visit to Nigeria is very important, especially as Obama blatantly refused to visit Nigeria throughout his 8 years of leadership.

The question is, why did John Kerry ignore Lagos to visit Sokoto instead? Why was his visit so vested on meeting Northern Nigeria governors and states? Was economic exchange not in the agenda? Even if it was purely political, is Southern Nigeria not supposed to be represented?

I walked into a bar in Melbourne and coincidentally saw the news being shown on TV, the overwhelming portrayal of Nigeria as a caliphate, and the traditional domination of Northern figures around the visit left my friend asking if Nigeria is a Northern state like Saudi Arabia?

Please, abeg, MAKE UNA LEAVE TRIBALISM AND GIVE ME A VALID ANSWER.

QuotaSystem:
It's only natural to feel threatened.

Buhari's many trips that you called junketting attracted tremendous international goodwill and financial commitments for the war against terror and development of the North and so you shouldn't be surprised at Sokoto being the first port of call for the U.S Secretary of State.

spenca:
Do you remember the time he visited the south(Lagos) only ?

Get something to sit in please .

QuotaSystem:
It's only natural to feel threatened.

Buhari's many trips that you called junketting attracted tremendous international goodwill and financial commitments for the war against terror and development of the North and so you shouldn't be surprised at Sokoto being the first port of call for the U.S Secretary of State.

HtwoOw:
First question you should ask yourself is where did John Kerry land ?

Justcash:


No one is threatened. Nigeria is too big for one single group, be it ethnic or religious, to dominate others. You can dominate politically, not socially and economically. So, it's unnecessary to feel threatened. Abacha and co couldn't do it then. It can't be done now. The worst that will happen is that the country will burn to ashes.

Your second point seems valid. Does this mean that Buhari is more interested in the security and development of Northern Nigeria than other parts? Last I checked, the middle belt is being ravaged too by terrorism, and the NDA is wreaking economic havoc in Southern Nigeria. Are those not security challenges? Why only North?

QuotaSystem:
It's only natural to feel threatened.

Buhari's many trips that you called junketting attracted tremendous international goodwill and financial commitments for the war against terror and development of the North and so you shouldn't be surprised at Sokoto being the first port of call for the U.S Secretary of State.

QuotaSystem:


It's the threat of political domination, which is the threat I alluded to.

To your question. Northern Nigeria is constantly heckled, particularly by the South, for dragging the rest of the country backwards due to its human development statistics which urgently need to be addressed. Why do you now act surprised that the region's development is the priority of the President and his international partners?

Regarding national security (BH,NDA,IPOB), deliberations of that nature are taken in Abuja where Kerry subsequently visited, and not Bayelsa.

GoldenJAT:
we keep over heating the polity... where ordinarily.. we shoudnt have! seems ur friend isnt that knowledgeable, when it comes to the system of goverment each country practices. books are meant to be read....everythin has been planned out even before John kerry landed in d country.

Justcash:


Leave my friend out of this and focus on my questions. As you claim to be more knowledgeable, answer the question.

Justcash:


Thanks for your detailed and non-insolent reply. Please, keep it this way.

I still insist that the president shouldn't make the development of one region his priority. What you enumerated is what the states and local governments in the Northern region exist for. The president is a national leader. His priority should be on every nook and cranny of Naija.

The north is just as impoverished as the Niger Delta region. There is no part of Nigeria that is developed. Shouldn't his priority be national development instead of one region's development?

QuotaSystem:


So you're saying you want to keep heckling the North about its challenges but don't want focus to be concentrated on solving them?

Have President Buhari and his ministers abandoned their responsibilities to other regions just because Kerry visited the North alone?

The fact is the North is set to experience accelerated development in the coming years along with other regions that choose to cooperate with the government; it is a region too big and too blessed to be insulted by other less politically dominant regions. Things must change.

GoldenJAT:
i have got nothin to say,because there is actually nothin to say concernin it! just stop overheating d polity. Sokoto it was... and Sokoto he went to... John kerry wasnt in nigeria to tour its states.

Justcash:


So, I shouldn't ask WHY SOKOTO just because SOKOTO it was? So, pertinent questions now overheat the Nigerian polity?

Justcash:


The North's got adequate representation in Nigeria. The executive, legislative and judicial arms of government exist in these states. Why do you portray them as being disadvantaged? The governors in these Northern states owe Northern Nigeria citizens the exclusive responsibility of developing their states and local governments. The president (head of the Nigerian state) should not focus on the North. That is why he is the president.

Who is insulting the North? Who are the less politically dominant regions? Please, educate me further because I don't understand your last paragraph. What things must change?

GoldenJAT:
make we no quarrel bro! just that.... most nairalanders here are really immatured and before u knw, will greatly derail d thread. bk to ur question.. we cant say for sure y sokoto was his point of call.. somewhere must b choosen for d visit.. and maybe sokoto was what de wanted exactly. hope u r good?

Justcash:


I'm good bro, thanks. Hope you good too?