Third Republic Senate president, Ameh Ebute, yesterday dissociated the Middle Belt from the plan by northerners to have the presidency returned to the zone in 2015.

Ebute’s reaction was sequel to media report credited to the Secretary General of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), Prof. Ango Abdullahi, on the unanimous front by the North to produce a consensus candidate for the 2015 presidency.

Abdullahi had in the report, said: “We succeeded in bringing in the Middle Belt Forum, though they said they’ve been left out, we say no. We are going to work together.”

But speaking with Daily Sun in Abuja, the National Coordinator of the Congress for Equality and Change, said: “Members of the Congress for Equality and Change, some of whom are also members of the Middle Belt Forum, are not part of the Middle Belt Forum that has agreed to discuss with NEF, with a view to producing a single candidate for 2015 from the North.

“We cannot blow hot and cold. We, the members of the Middle Belt, who constitute members of the Congress for Equality and Change, along with our South-South brothers, have already taken a position that President Goodluck Jonathan is our candidate for 2015.

“We are not part of NEF who said the presidency must come from the North. We in the minority South-South and minority Middle Belt in the North, are unanimous that President Goodluck Jonathan, is our candidate for 2015, that if the North wants to produce any presidency, it should be after the second term of President Goodluck Jonathan. This is our stand,” Ebute insisted.

While saying that he was not afraid if power returned to the North in 2015, Ebute said, “power can return to the North if they win.”

According to Ebute, “if they have a unanimous candidate and they win the election, nobody will question the return of power to them.

But the North that they are talking about does not include the Middle Belt. That is the offending statement.”

Ebute further said: “Anytime they talk about the North, they mean the North-West. They do not include us. And we say we are tired of supporting people who will never include us in any election. So, this is the problem.”

SOUTH SOUTH= =======LAND SLIDE VICTORY FOR GEJ
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LAGOS YORUBA CHRISTIANS AND IGBO CHRISTIANS ======= LANDSLIDE VICTORY FOR GEJ
OGUN STATE ===== LANDSLIDE VICTORY FOR GEJ
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KOGI STATE ========= ANOTHER SWEET LANDSLIDE VICTORY FOR GEJ
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GBAWE, EKO ILE, EGGHEADER, TOLEXANDER, DEMDEM, ARE YOU SURE WE' RE GONNA ELECT ANOTHER MUSLIM GOVERNOR IN LAGOS STATE AGAIN...... ITS EITHER FRESH AIR OR YOU START ANSWERING YOUR FATHERS NAME ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

The position being taken by the middle belt elders, though coming late is good for the future of the zone. The core northern Hausa- Fulanis have used the popularity of a united northern Nigeria to reap everybody only to abandon them when it matters. The northern presidency being clamoured for is the core Hausa-Fulani, why the whole merger party gabarge is how Buhari can become president, anything short of it is out of the equation. The middle belt became conscious of this antics by their core northern brothers when Obasanjo came on board and elevated the ranks of the middle beltans both in the military and civil service, which saw to the eyebrow raised by the Muslim northern elders hence everybody now answers his father's name.
I enjoin the wise Yorubas amongst us to repeal this alliance Tinubu and ACN are planning. It will only make the Yorubas as second fiddle in the politics of the nation, a mistake Awolowo will not make if he were alive.

LAGOS YORUBA CHRISTIANS AND IGBO CHRISTIANS ======= LANDSLIDE VICTORY FOR GEJ
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Whether Christian, Muslim or Traditionalist..the Yorubas are ONE. People should stop this nonsense of trying to create disunity amonst the Yorubas.

daywatcher: LAGOS YORUBA CHRISTIANS AND IGBO CHRISTIANS ======= LANDSLIDE VICTORY FOR GEJ
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[/b]LAGOS YORUBA CHRISTIANS AND IGBO CHRISTIANS ======= LANDSLIDE VICTORY FOR GEJ

Whether Christian, Muslim or Traditionalist..the Yorubas are ONE. People should stop this nonsense of trying to create disunity amonst the Yorubas.

They will not stop just like they do in the North.They will burn the country to ensure only there views sail.Its up to the people to resist such.that said the Yorubas are just beginning to witness the religious effect of divide and rule.

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