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SpatialKing:
Today Tinubu for presidency
Tomorrow Osinbajo for presidency

Yorubas are getting confused already

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”.

Abagworo:
Tinubu can never be President of Nigeria

Muna4real:
I've told you to cleanse your land