Against the recent statement by the Kaduna State Governor, Mallam El- Rufai that the South should produce the next president of the country come 2023, the Chairman of the Arewa Youths Consultative Forum, Shettima Yerima, has said the governor is on his own, OBSERVERS TIMES political desk.
This came just as Senator Abu Ibrahim said that the South-East has no basis to lay claim to producing the next president come 2023 because it put all its eggs in one basket by voting collectively for the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP).
I think the South-East made a lot of mistakes by going one way. Look at the South-West, it is on the ratio of 60/40. There is only one governor from the All Progressive Congress (APC) in the South-East. So for APC to say they could give it to the South-East, they cannot, unless PDP may be right to pick their candidate from the South- East. “The party (APC) will like to look at where it has strong support base and take decision.
Rather, he only represents Kaduna as far as this issue or any national issue is concerned. “On whose behalf is he speaking? As far as the issue is concerned, personally, I don’t believe in rotational presidency, rather competence, but no one has the power to arrogate for himself the collective position of a people,” he said.