Amid controversy over the propriety of rotational
presidency between North and South, Kaduna State
governor, Nasir El-Rufai has said no northerner
should contest for the presidency in 2023.
El-Rufai expressed his personal opinion on what
has become a divisive subject, dismissing
insinuations that he was interested in the race.
The governor, who made the statement in an
interview with BBC Hausa Service, had also made a
similar remark last year.
His latest statement came on the heels of Alhaji
Mamman Daura’s assertion that merit should
determine who becomes President instead of
zoning.
Daura, President Muhammadu Buhari’s nephew
aired his views also in an interview with BBC Hausa
Service.
El-Rufai said: “In Nigerian politics, there is a
system of rotation, in which everyone agrees that if
the north rules for eight years, the south will rule for
eight years. That is why I came out and said that
after President Buhari has been in office for eight
years, no northerner should run for office. Let the
Southerners also have eight years. If you look at
how I am, I don’t take anyone to work with me for
the zone he came from. The eligibility I look at is if
who is entrusted to the public will hold it properly. It
has been said that I have loved the presidency
since I was a minister in the FCT. This is nonsense.
I do not want the Nigerian presidency. God gives
power, whether you like it or not, if he wants it, He
will give it to you, but I have never sought the
presidency of Nigeria, no one can say I have ever
sought it”.
Nigeria operates an unwritten rotational presidency
between north and south. Of the major political
blocs in the country, the South-East has not
produced president since 1999.
President, Fault Daura’s Position On Zoning
Meanwhile, governor of Imo State, Sen. Hope
Uzodinma has declared that the nation would be
better off if merit is allowed to drive the processes
of electing public office holders.
He spoke in Owerri, when he received in audience
the Coalition of Ethnic Nationality Youth Leaders in
Nigeria, who visited him.
His words: “I will rather see a situation where merit
is allowed to drive the process of determining who
occupies a public office in the country rather than
where you come from. I think merit should drive the
political process because the nation will be better
off for it. We must use our diversity to strengthen
national unity not to divide the nation. We should find
unity in our diversity by believing in each other”.
He charged the youths to always support the
Federal Government under President Buhari who he
described as the most youth-friendly president so
far in the country.
Uzodinma said despite all challenges, President
Buhari gave the youths a sense of belonging through
several forms of empowerment such as N-Power,
political appointments, agric loans, skills and youth
fund initiative.

source: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/08/zoning-el-rufai-backs-south-says-no-northerner-should-run-in-2023/

Mind games

Northern Elites know the game of one Nigeria and they are playing it rightly

Misplaced priority...let this political energy for 2023 be channeled towards ending the terrible killings in southern Kaduna. Lives are more precious than 2023 zoning.

Word

All for your lilliputanic and selfish dream of VPeeing anyone who comes up under your party abi?

The bloods of the innocent being slaughtered in Kaduna South shall hunt and hang on you and your generations head for eternity.

Iphupa:
Word

Really?
So you believe the words of a politician without taking a pinch of salt.