The presidency's statement suggests Mr Daura was quoted out of context.
The Presidency has reacted to the call by President Muhammadu Buhari’s nephew, Mamman Daura, that zoning of the Presidency should be jettisoned for competence.
The unwritten arrangement has played a key role in determining who emerges the president in the largely ethno-religious sensitive nation. In its first public reaction to the controversy, the Presidency said on Saturday that Mr Daura’s comments did not reflect the views of the Buhari administration. At age 80, and having served as editor and managing director of one of this country’s most influential newspapers, the New Nigerian, certainly, Malam Mamman qualifies as an elder statesman with a national duty to hold perspectives and disseminate them as guaranteed under our constitution and laws of the land. He does not need the permission or clearance of anyone to exercise this right.
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