It’s Time to go Back to Drawing Board, Nigeria Has Failed - Ango Abdullahi

2023: The North Still Have Four Years At The Presidency – Ango Abdullahi

by Victor Ndubuisi
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Ango Abdullahi, the Convener of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), stated on Wednesday that the north has a four-year deficit in ruling the country.

Abdullahi says this amid claims that power in the 2023 presidential election should be shifted to the South-East.

The convener of the NEF remarked that the South has dominated Nigeria for 14 years, whereas the North has only ruled for ten.

He did, however, remark that everyone has the right to run for president, and that if they win, it should be based on thumbprints.

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On Wednesday, Abdullahi announced this at the Northern Elders Forum’s current General Assembly and 10th Anniversary Celebration at the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Centre in Abuja.

He said, “The constitution is very clear that I can stand the election twenty times, and I can lose twenty times. But nothing should stop me from contesting elections if I want. Then when you look at it in terms of well, ‘do me I do you’, rub my back and I rub yours, the North has rubbed more backs than its back has been rubbed. Even if you are talking about the years in power from 1999 till date, Obasanjo did eight years; Jonathan six, that is 14; Umaru two, and now Buhari eight years. So, I am being owed even in the number of years, four years.

“The issue should not have been we are not qualified to contest, we have no right to contest. Certainly, this is the reason we are saying now that the issue in the Nigerian political environment, must be based on democratic tenets only. There should be no issue with reserving anything for anybody. If you win an election, you win on the basis of this thumbprint. If you win, we will accept.

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“But for us to begin to see threats that if this happens, and we do not like it, we’ll do something negative, we are warning that the election will be contested hopefully free and fair, and credible. And anybody who wins the election must be accepted as the winner of the election, without sentiments. And if there is any attempt to subvert it, then we’ll be ready to also counter.”

The Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, the Vice-Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Datti Baba-Ahmed, and a representative of the All-Progressives Congress, Senator Kashim Shettima, were also present.

 

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