Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) said it is perplexed by a recent shamefaced remark by the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) that tends to threaten the North
“In raw numbers, Tinubu beat Atiku in the north-west, scoring 2,652,824 votes compared to his opponent’s 2,197,824. Not only were Atiku’s margins in some of the states, narrow, Tinubu took a whopping half a million votes in Kano alone.
“Coming second in certain states is better than coming first in others. Tinubu was first in Ekiti state, for instance, but he got only 200,000 votes while he got more than double the figure in Kano to place second. Tinubu got a miserable one percent of his total votes from the south-east with a total of 127,605 votes from the five states and did not score 25 percent in any of them,” he added.
He said in this context, no amount of threat or hooliganism will stop such northerners as Abdulaziz Yari, Abbass, Betara, Gagdi, Wase and Jaji from exercising their right to contest for the positions of their choices. “Likewise, any other interested candidate from whatever section of the country should be free to contest so that in the end the matter is sorted through democratic election by the legislators themselves,” he said.
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