 President Mohamed Ubuhari's leadership style has come under criticism from northern Nigerian elders. They gathered in the Adamawa State Capitol in Yola for the lecture series in remembrance of Nigeria's former representatives to the United Nations, Maitama Suli. More in this report. Northern elders are here in Yola for a lecture series with the theme, Reorientation of the North. Among the speakers is a former executive secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme, Professor Yusuf Usman. He admitted visiting bandits in forests in six states alongside Islamic cleric Ishaik Ahmed Gumi. His reason is that banditry requires a social and not a military solution. Professor Usman took a swipe at President Mohamed Ubuhari for, according to him, having nothing to show for his seven years in office. Come from Kassina where the president comes from. Before this government came, we did not know what IDPs looked like. Now a third of my state, the president's state is under siege by bandits. Our capital city is filling up with IDPs. We never saw that. The president doesn't call to commiserate with us, doesn't speak about banditry, listen to him. Each time he talks about insecurity, he talks about Boko Haram. Banditry is more difficult and more lethal to this country than Boko Haram. And I'll tell you why. Boko Haram is located in one place, the Northeast. Bandits are all over this country. Ayanshe Gumi went and visited 60 deep into the forest and met all the war commanders exposing ourselves to risk. Because we knew it was Wajib, it is our responsibility and our duty. We're not going to wait for any government that comes and lies on propaganda and says, oh, they have been decimated. They have been this. We are going to take the war to them. Oh, kinetic, magnetic, magic, all that nonsense we found out was nothing but nonsense. Other Northern Elders also expressed worry over President Buhari's leadership style. We shouldn't pay attention to choosing leaders by ethnicity because we have done so. We have failed willfully. That was what we used in electing Buhari and we have seen the result today. The government has failed thoroughly and totally. Nobody can come from Abuja or Lagos or even Washington that will secure Northern societies if we don't go back to our traditional justice system where the elders are involved in justice, young people are involved in obedience and military and community policing. We all knew how our societies were. Two decades ago, we cannot degenerate. We are all out, we are all out to ensure that we revive the glory of Nigerian students particularly in northern Nigeria. Our students have been kidnapped rampantly. Our students have been taken away. Our schools have been closed on daily basis. Skyrocketed increase in tuition fees. Skyrocketed increase in accommodation fees. Everywhere in Nigeria, students are no longer victimization, political victimization, sexual harassment in our campuses. It's everywhere. Groups of criminals have taken over some parts of north-west Nigeria because in Mayhem, with their masked nappies, rustling, killings and illegal tax section. They are collectively referred to as bandits. Although some Nigerians are calling for them to be designated as terrorists.