Northern elite and pressure groups have reportedly dismissed last Friday's cabinet shake-up as a farce in which President Biya largely ignored the grievances of the people of the three Northern provinces as stated in a recent memorandum.
One of the signatories of the memo that urged President Biya to appoint a northerner to the coveted post of Prime Minister told The Post yesterday under anonymity that they simply scorned the recent cabinet shake-up as nonsense. He swore that the signatories of the Grand North memorandum will not go to sleep until president Biya appoints one of them Prime Minister.
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