I think they blamed "leadership" which invariably boils down to he Governors. Did you hear read Mallam Yahaya Gusaus speech at the inauguration of the ACF's board a day earlier? It was a classic that moved many to tears. It summed up everything wrong with us and the system, but invevitably also pointed a finger at the leaders.
For me it the conference was the same old rhetoric with a particular generation shouting out Sardaunas praises, forgetting that if he was the hero of their generation then who is the Sardauna that I can use as a reference to all good amongst them? Some of us were not even born when the Sarduana left us for the great beyond.
May Allah have mercy on his soul.