Presidential poll: Atiku is a Nigerian, says Yakasai
Alhaji Tanko Yakasai, a former Adviser to the late Second Republic President Shehu Aliyu Shagari, has said the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party , Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, is a Nigerian citizen who is qualified to contest for any position in the country.
He said: “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 October 1, 1960, both Southern and Northern Cameroons were trusteeship territories under Nigeria, in accordance with Article 76 of the United Nations Trusteeship Agreement of 1946.“This situation dates back to the period of World War I. Prior to that war, some parts of the old Adamawa Emirate were occupied by Germans.
Yakasai added: “In 1946, with the demise of the League of Nations and the emergence of the United Nations , the Mandated Territories were taken over by the new world body and reassigned to the same colonial powers as Trusteeship Territories. Still Britain continued with administrative structures of the territories as same.
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