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2015: North’ll Not Back Southern Candidates —NGF by Bontee: 10:50pm On May 17, 2012
Published on May 17, 2012 by · 20 Comments
Ahead of the 2015 general elections, governors of 19 northern states under the aegis of Northern Governors Forum, NGF, Thursday in Kaduna agreed to unite against candidates from the south in order to produce a president from their own region.
Speaking at the opening session of their quarterly meeting held in Kaduna, northwest Nigeria, Chairman of the Northern Governors Forum and Niger State Governor, Babangida Aliyu said the governors this time will not allow what happened in 2011 to repeat itself in 2015.
“We must be united more than ever to go into the 2015 elections as one entity with the aim of producing the president,” Aliyu said.
He advised all governors and politicians within the region to remain focused and pursue issues of development rather than trivial issues that have led to the retrogression of the region in recent years.
Sources told P.M.NEWS that the governors are unhappy that President Goodluck Jonathan wants to vie for a second term in 2015.
P.M.NEWS also learnt that the northern governors have set up a political machinery to resist any form of inducement to cajole the north to accept not only President Jonathan but also any other candidate from the south for the 2015 race.
The resolve to be united and produce a president from the north in 2015 is not unconnected with the argument earlier put forward by some northern PDP members that the north was shortchanged by Jonathan’s election into office in 2011 as president against the so-called “Gentleman’s agreement for power rotation”.
The general feeling in the north was that after President Umaru Yar’Adua died on 5 May 2010 and Jonathan became president through constitutional arrangement, he should have respected the zoning principle of his party and quit in 2011 for a northerner to run.
—Femi Adi/Kaduna

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Re: 2015: North’ll Not Back Southern Candidates —NGF by Gbawe: 6:04am On May 18, 2012
Bontee: Published on May 17, 2012 by · 20 Comments
Ahead of the 2015 general elections, governors of 19 northern states under the aegis of Northern Governors Forum, NGF, Thursday in Kaduna agreed to unite against candidates from the south in order to produce a president from their own region.
Speaking at the opening session of their quarterly meeting held in Kaduna, northwest Nigeria, Chairman of the Northern Governors Forum and Niger State Governor, Babangida Aliyu said the governors this time will not allow what happened in 2011 to repeat itself in 2015.
“We must be united more than ever to go into the 2015 elections as one entity with the aim of producing the president,” Aliyu said.
He advised all governors and politicians within the region to remain focused and pursue issues of development rather than trivial issues that have led to the retrogression of the region in recent years.
Sources told P.M.NEWS that the governors are unhappy that President Goodluck Jonathan wants to vie for a second term in 2015.
P.M.NEWS also learnt that the northern governors have set up a political machinery to resist any form of inducement to cajole the north to accept not only President Jonathan but also any other candidate from the south for the 2015 race.

The resolve to be united and produce a president from the north in 2015 is not unconnected with the argument earlier put forward by some northern PDP members that the north was shortchanged by Jonathan’s election into office in 2011 as president against the so-called “Gentleman’s agreement for power rotation”.
The general feeling in the north was that after President Umaru Yar’Adua died on 5 May 2010 and Jonathan became president through constitutional arrangement, he should have respected the zoning principle of his party and quit in 2011 for a northerner to run.
—Femi Adi/Kaduna

http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2012/05/17/2015-northll-not-back-southern-candidates-ngf/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PmNewsNigeria+%28PM+News+Nigeria%29

Entirely expected but this does not mean some will not callously bankrupt Nigeria to try and achieve 'mission impossible' Part 2. We all know the real cause of the subsidy Racket and why Allison-Madueke (GEJ's favourite "fundraiser" ) cannot be sacked despite supervising one of the biggest and most brazen official scam in Nigeria's history.
Re: 2015: North’ll Not Back Southern Candidates —NGF by Mynd44: 6:09am On May 18, 2012
Interesting
Re: 2015: North’ll Not Back Southern Candidates —NGF by AustineE1: 7:08am On May 18, 2012
Interesting!lets see how they can go about it,with the daily massacre of minority christains by Fulani marauders!we are waiting to see which states constitutes the North as it is today...the last thing a plateau,benue,southern Kaduna man&most people of Taraba,Adamawa and couple of others who no longer see themselves as Northerners wld do,is to support any core muslim northerner!This people keep quiet while they are being massacred only for them to talk about one north whenever its time to go to the poll!'The evil that men do,now lives with them'!
Re: 2015: North’ll Not Back Southern Candidates —NGF by Mcdondayan: 7:21am On May 18, 2012
The NGF and its chairman (been the ugliest governor in Nigeria according 2 NLers) can not do anything. What have we gained from decades of misrule from the notherners. Power has changed hands

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