THE PROBLEM OF THE NORTH by Abdullahi Yalwa

'Professor Ango Abdullahi is against Emir Sanusi because he perceives himself as the sole voice of the North. His criticism against the Emir is therefore selfish'
"The problem of the North is that many who claim to speak for her u often do so for their own personal interest. No one individual in modern Nigerian history has claim to speak for the collective north as Prof. Ango Abdullahi"
  In 1999, on the eve of the Obasanjo's declaration to contest for the presidential ticket of the PDP, Prof. Ango Abdullahi in an interview with a mysterious Magezine called Politicus boasted to the Nation that the north had the power and will give it to whosoever it chooses.