2023: Northern Elders Forum Rejects Zoning Of Presidency To South Or Any Region

The Northern Elders Discussion board has opposed the hullabaloo for zoning of the 2023 presidency to the South, saying energy ought to stay within the North.

The NEF Spokesperson, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, throughout the Assembly of Northern Leaders of Thought mentioned that each Nigerian and area have a authorized proper to contest for Presidency.

This comes simply days after Bola Tinubu, the Nationwide chief of the APC declared his intent to run for the 2023 Presidential race.

Whereas delivering his speech, Baba-Ahmed mentioned

“For the North, we can not say it louder. A Northerner must be voted President provided that he’s the most effective. Being Northerner just isn’t sufficient. All Nigerians want good leaders, however for us within the North, we’ll demand to see proof {that a} candidate doesn’t simply need energy to meet a private ambition. 

We wish to see proof that those that wish to lead us in future perceive the roots of and options to our insecurity and poverty and distances from one another. 

We wish to know the way irredentism will likely be dealt with; how and when main adjustments in our buildings and methods will likely be made to deal with well-liked grievances over the way in which our nation ought to function; how our financial system could be re-engineered to attain sustainable improvement and work for the wealthy and the poor equally, and the way our younger will likely be groomed to develop into productive, trustworthy and patriotic residents. 

We’ll demand to see an inclusive and competent staff that can marketing campaign with the candidate and transit with him into governance.

We wish a completely Nigerian President who will likely be as arduous on the bandit as he will likely be on secessionists and insurgents. We wish a president with imaginative and prescient and the power to retrieve a rustic on the snapping point and place it securely on the trail of stability, safety and development.

We’re, after all, a ways from subsequent yr’s elections, however it is going to be harmful to disregard indicators that the journey from this level till these elections might place the nation in better hazard. 

“We should always warn politicians to keep away from destroying a rustic they search to steer. We should demand that the combat towards organized, violent crimes is intensified. We have to enhance elite cohesion even within the context of intensely-divisive electoral campaigns.”

Supply; PressInformant