From: Femi Oyelola, Kaduna
The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF) has said that it disagree with a Northern elder statesman Alhaji Sani Zangon Daura that the northern region should support a Northern candidate for the nation’s presidency come 2023.
AYCF in a press statement signed by its National President, Alhaji Yerima Shettima said the choice of a Southerner for President by the region was clearly in the spirit of justice because Nigeria does not belong to the North alone, or Muslims and Christians of the North, insisting that “ even on moral grounds, the most responsible political action by the North was the decision on power shift in 2023, because the Presidency cannot be hereditary and Nigeria is not a Banana Republic”.
Shettima further said, however, that the elder was expressing his personal opinion and not the stand of the North in general, saying that “ a little balancing was needed in the position of our father Zangon Daura, more so when he admitted that the elders are mere escorts for the younger generation today”.
The AYCF noted that when 13 Northern governors led by Kaduna State Governor, Mall Nasir El-Rufai’ endorsed a Southern candidate for the 2023 presidency, they repeatedly cited political justice.
