Here are the Big Men responsible for the Problems in the North The President, Civil Rights Congress of Nigeria (CRCN), Mallam Shehu Sani, has said that 70 percent of the problems bedeviling the North are caused by ex-presidents and leaders of northern extraction. The remaining 30 per cent, Sani said, should be attributed to President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration for what he called his sectional leadership and neglect of the North. The CRCN boss described as a “waste” the number of years ex-heads of state and presidents of northern extraction had piloted the affairs of Nigeria. He argued that they had not only failed to empower the region but ruined it educationally, socially as well as economically. He said the past leaders such as Gen. Yakubu Gowon, Shehu Shagari, Generals Muhammadu Buhari, Ibrahim Babangida, the late Sani Abacha, Abdulsalami Abubakar, as well as the late Umaru Yar’Adua, all from the region only left behind trails of poverty, discords ...