 The northern group, under the auspices of coalition of northern groups CNG, has called on all Nigerians to shun politics of sentiment, religious and ethnicity for the growth and development of the country. The group organized a one day, 2023 elections sensitization and awareness conference in Kajuna with a theme, politics of sentiments, critical factor, and military development of democracy in Nigeria. Placid correspondent Abela Daroufai, fired in the report, represented it from our studios. To have a better Nigeria come 2023, there is the need to sensitize the people to vote for the right candidate by setting aside sentiment, religion and ethnic differences for the peace, progress and development of the country. Speaking at the event, the national coordinator of CNG, Comrade Jamilu Taranji, explained that religion and ethnic tolerance is a panacea to entering survival as a nation. We are in a quadmea and this quadmea can only be salvaged when we hold our hands together. We believe that a united and strong must translate into united and strong Nigeria. If the northern Nigeria can do what is meaningful, if the northern Nigeria can do what is supposed to be done, then definitely I believe that Nigeria will prosper. The spokesperson of CNG Sulaiman Abdul Aziz, who lamented over what he termed as political dominance of the elite against the interest of few said that 2023 is significant. According to him, Nigerians would not merely vote to transfer power from one administration to another, or from one party to another, but will vote to transfer power from a bankrupt elite and give it back to the people. To be wary of how he votes, to vote wisely, not vote along religion, ethnicity, sectional or even party affiliation alone, he has to subject candidates, whichever candidate, to propose scrutiny, critical scrutiny. On his part, the guest speaker Abdul Lahee Abub said that Nigerian politics was characterised by violence, conflicts, pull-down syndrome, blackmail, hate speeches, rumour-mongering and sabotage. He said that all these visors have their root on intolerance, sentiment and inability to accommodate divergent views and interests of Nigerians. They need to be extended to all states, to all the government, to all the world and to all the community. This programme is supposed to be a continuous programme, continuous education, continuous enlightenment, continuous consideration. Also speaking at the event, Pastor Johanna Buru, who spoke on politics of sentiment from the religion's perspective, said that Northern Nigeria is disadvantaged in area of education, job opportunities and other infrastructures. We allow tribal, ethnic, religious sentiment to cloud our hearts, our minds, that we were unable to fear judgement to ourselves. The group says it does not have any preferred candidate in mind, but is calling on Nigerians across the country to use the power of their votes to change the political narratives come 2020. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news, please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.