Yakasai slams Buhari, APC for claiming Atiku is not Nigerian
Yakasai was responding to an allegation credited to the legal team of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress , President Muhammadu Buhari, that the former vice-president is not a Nigerian but a Cameroonian.
“There are people sponsored by the party who contested and won elections to elective offices and are today occupying such positions. Atiku is equally or even better qualified to hold any public office in Nigeria than some of such people,” he stated. “That was after the partition of Africa in 1884/85. After the conquest of Germany in 1919, territories under German occupation were taken over by the newly-formed League of Nations and were assigned to different colonial powers as mandated territories. Tanganyika, southwest Africa and southern and northern Cameroons were mandated to Britain.
“Before Nigerian independence, many citizens of the Trusteeship Territories held important public offices both at Federal and regional levels in Nigeria. Other than the fact they were elected members of parliament and regional Houses of Assembly, making laws for Nigeria, holding Nigerian international passports; they also served among other things as Nigeria’s Federal and regional ministers and other civil service and public offices in the country.
According to Yakassai, “Atiku is an indigene of Adamawa whose father was an indigene of Sokoto and his mother a bona fide indigene of Adamawa and many indigines born before and after him have been accorded full recognition as Nigerians.
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