Atiku is a Nigerian, says Yakasai
The Second Republic Presidential Adviser, to former President late Shehu Aliyu Shagari, Alhaji Tanko Yakasai has stated that the presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party , Alhaji Atiku Abubakar remains a Nigerian citizen and is qualified to contest for any elective position in the country, including the office of the President.
To my astonishment, “it is therefore strange for leaders of the ruling party in Nigeria, the APC to claim that former vice president Atiku Abubakar is not qualified to seek to be the president of Nigeria. The elder statesman,also recalled that, “before 1st of October, 1960 both Southern and Northern Cameroons were trusteeship territories under Nigeria in accordance with Article 76 of the United Nations Trusteeship Agreement of 1946.
“Citizens of the Mandated territories were accorded the same rights and privileges as citizens of the colonies. Britain decided to administer its mandated Cameroons as part of Nigeria. Their citizens of the colonial mandated had the same rights and privilleges as citizens of colonial Nigeria.” “After independence, they both decided their future in plebiscites. Those in the Eastern Region chose to merge with the Republic of Cameroon, while those in the north decided to remain with Nigeria. The area of northern Cameroon after the plebiscite were declared as the 13th province of northern Nigeria.
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