The governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has said he would not support a northern candidate for the presidency in 2023.

El-Rufai said this on Saturday in an interview with the BBC Hausa Service as published by The Cable.

According to him, the idea of zoning the presidential seat is necessarily not constitutional, but is based on the country’s political arrangement which he believes should be respected.

The President, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (Retd.), is from the North.

El-Rufai said, “The southern part of the country is supposed to produce the president come 2023; I don’t support a northerner to vie for the seat after President Muhammadu Buhari, based on Nigeria’s political arrangement.

“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.”

The governor, however, said he had no interest in becoming the president in 2023 and termed rumours around such as being baseless.

He added, “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.”

President Buhari’s nephew, Mamman Daura, had earlier in an interview said he was against the zoning of the presidency

https://punchng.com/i-wont-support-a-northerner-as-president-in-2023-el-rufai/

Mynd44
Lalasticlala

Oga channel this political energy of who to support towards ending the babaric Killings in southern kaduna. Nigeria as a whole is a mess and humans are being killed like insects, yet it's 2023 that matters to you guys..Misplaced prority.

I hope you keep to your words and support wholeheartedly a southerner to lead for another 8 years. Not tomorrow now you deny it wasn't what you meant. Anyway you urgently need to solve the religious crises going on under your watch.

Word

Iphupa:
Word

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

Jews from hell go wail tire over this news.

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.

SmartProf:
Oga channel this political energy of who to support towards ending the babaric Killings in southern kaduna. Nigeria as a whole is a mess and humans are being killed like insects, yet it's 2023 that matters to you guys..Misplaced prority.

Watch as they tag this as an IPOB news. Any opposition to them is tagged “IPOB”

Kylekent59:



Watch as they tag this as an IPOB news. Any opposition to them is tagged “IPOB”

Exactly...you can't force wisdom on people, but the truth must be told nevertheless.

I know APC's plan. If a northerner contests on the platform of APC, that will be the end of the party. They know this and wouldn't let that happen.

APC would eventually use federal might to tilt the election in their favour and we'll have a southern president no matter who the PDP fields as its party candidate.

Osibanjo and zulum all the way!

APC should give us this...

Yola222:
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And you'll reach FCT Abuja like play like play Igbalode

They don't price bread. God bless The Federal Republic of Nigeria

Yola222:
yes

Nice. Keep up with the good work

let wait and see

our champion TINUBU 2023 wether you like Him or not. mynd44 lalasticlala oam4j this development deserve front page wo!

T9ksy:





Sorry to say but your proposition is D.O.A.

With the way things are unfolding in the country lately, I doubt if there will be any election in 2023.

Hmmmm

Kindly share this your thoughts with us...

This won't go down well with our people from the East.

They want to hear "Northerners will contest in2023" so that they can spite Tinubu and insult the Yorubas.

Yet they want Presidency drop on their laps.

Artiiclebeast:
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.

Lol... You've started changing the narratives. So it's VP he wants now. He's no longer going to disgrace Tinubu??

Men talking as if they are God..

Tflex01:


Lol... You've started changing the narratives. So it's VP he wants now. He's no longer going to disgrace Tinubu??

Kindly, keep looking for the people you've been having a chat or banter with.

Could this be another political tactics geared at slowing down the southerners who are already insisting that power must return to the south?