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Apologize To Northerners Over ‘Rude Statement’ – Shehu Sani To Fayose

by Victor Ndubuisi July 31, 2024

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Shehu Sani, a former lawmaker who served as the National Assembly representative for the Kaduna Central senatorial district, has requested former Ekiti State governor Ayodele Fayose to apologise to Northerners for remarks he made about the people in the area.

In an interview that aired on Channels Television on Monday night, Fayose incited controversy by claiming that the reason the federal government was unable to develop Nigeria was because northerners were taking multiple wives and bearing numerous children in an indiscriminate manner, creating a great deal of problems for the country and a burden on the government.

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“The reason why it is difficult for Tinubu to develop Nigeria is because Northerners are giving birth to children they can’t cater for,” Fayose said.

Reacting in a post on his official X handle on Tuesday, the former lawmaker said Fayose’s statement was not palatable.

“Even though Fayose spoke as an individual, his reported statement on Northerners is contemptuous and unconscionable.

“I suggest he should humbly withdraw it and tender an apology as a statesman”, Sani stated.

July 31, 2024

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‘Get Out If You Don’t Want A Northerner As President’ – Hakeem Baba-Ahmed

by Victor Ndubuisi September 20, 2021

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The Northern Elders Forum, NEF, has insisted that anyone who doesn’t want a northerner as president in 2023 can leave the country when it happens.

Anaedoonline.ng reports that there have been clamour for the two major political parties in the country to zone their presidential ticket to the south.

The southern governors forum had last insisted that they would not support any party that fields a northerner as presidential candidate in 2023.

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However, NEF spokesperson, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, has stated that northerners would not be treated as second class as they have the population to decide who becomes president.

He stated this while speaking at the maiden Maitama Sule Leadership Lecture Series organized by the students wing of Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) at the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria.

Baba-Ahmed said, “The North is not for sale and northerners will surprise those waiting for them to queue up in 2023 and be given money in exchange for their votes.”

He warned that no one can threaten the region to support them, stressing that the north has majority of the votes and democracy says votes win elections.

Baba-Ahmed said: “We will lead Nigeria the way we have led Nigeria before, whether we are President or Vice President, we will lead Nigeria. We have the majority of the votes and the democracy says vote whom you want. Why should we accept second class position when we know we can buy form and contest for first class and we will win?

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“Why does anybody need to threaten us and intimidate us? We will get that power, but be humble because power comes from God. We inherited leadership, being honest is not being stupid.

“There are Nigerians who believed that because the economy of the North is being crumbled; we are running away from insecurity, we are politically vulnerable, they think they can buy us for 2023 they are making a mistake.

“We are ready for this, we will consider every economic adversity, challenge, we will fix the Northern economy and we are the only one who can fix this Northern economy. For that reason, we are not for sale. We are in the process of rebuilding the North and we will rebuild the North from 2023.”

September 20, 2021

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UPDATE: Buhari Yet Again Names Another Northerner As New NAPTIP DG

by Victor Ndubuisi May 27, 2021

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The allegation that President Muhammadu Buhari is appointing only persons from the northern region of the country into key agencies of government has further been strengthened as he named Senator Basheer Mohammed as the new Director-General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP).

Garba Shehu, the presidential spokesman, announced the new appointment in a statement on Thursday.

This comes a few hours after Buhari appointed Zamfara-born Major General Farouk Yahaya as the new Chief of Army Staff.

According to Shehu, the President also approved some key changes under the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development.

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The Presidential spokesperson said the action was taken in order to realise and sustain the government’s abiding desire for effective and efficient service delivery in the two organisations.

The statement said Mrs Imaan Suleiman Ibrahim who was until now the Director General of NAPTIP will now take over from Mohammed as the Honourable Federal Commissioner for the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI).

Shehu added that the President further directed that the changes should be effected after comprehensive handover notes to successors.

May 27, 2021