Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, the National Publicity Secretary of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), has told Southern governors that Northerners cannot be forced to
Baba-Ahmed said that while there is nothing wrong in having a southerner as Nigeria’s President in 2023, those seeking office after President Muhammadu Buhari’s eight years in office should work hard to persuade Northerners and other Nigerians to vote for them.its region must produce the next President.
“We don’t want another tribal or regional president,” Baba-Ahmed told The Nation while reacting to Southern governors’ call for Nigeria’s next President to come from the region. “You cannot tie up northern voters completely and totally and say he must not vote for any party that fields a northerner for the position of the President. You need to persuade people, you need to do the hard work of politics.
“People who believe that having a southern presidency is central to the survival of this country should in the name of God get up do the real work of lobbying and politicking and persuade people that the future of this country is contingent on the emergence of a southern president. “But, you cannot do it by threat, intimidation and blackmail.
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