You may disagree with VDM, but you cannot deny that we are the ones who created conditions that devalue us, devalue our religion and devalue Nigeria.
This is the North that a politicians can sponsor mass weddings as constituency projects and use them during campaigns to win elections.
A North that a person who can’t take responsibility for 5 children may reproduce 20 or 30 children. And later leave the children to take responsibility for themselves and feed the family too.
A North that people are competing to add more wives and reproduce more kids, with only 'Cirani' in Lagos as their means of earning.
A North that twisted Almajiri system — a 5-year-old kid — is sent to school, and the same kid has to beg for food and clothes. An education that can be taught even at home.
Because we don’t have a plan for ourselves. Even investors are afraid to put their money in the North. They would rather spend it in the South. Is this the North I will argue with VDM over?
We have created environment that cannot be sustainable. How many operational companies have we created for ourselves so far? Who I'm I to argue that we are doing more harm to Nigeria?
The only functionable market in north is; Maganin Karfin Maza. Anything beyond that is dead and bury.
You can hate VDM for calling us whatever he says, because he’s Christian, but we deserve it. And he was never wrong in his comments. We created conditions for ourselves that will continue to haunt us, and there’s no way out unless we are liberated and change our mindset. This is not Islam.