Barely three weeks to the convening of the seventh National Assembly, Northern governors and leaders are mounting pressure on President Goodluck Jonathan to concede the Senate Presidency to the core North.
Besides, the Northern leaders are pleading for general amnesty for post-election violence suspects.
Some Northern governors and leaders have been in Abuja for five days, holding meetings to push their desire to have the Senate Presidency going to the core North.
One of such meetings was held in Abuja on Wednesday night with some new senators-elect in attendance.
The President, who returned yesterday to Abuja after a retreat in the Obudu Cattle Ranch, got representatives from the governors and leaders on why the Senate presidency should go to the core North, especially the Northeast.
A source, who spoke in confidence, said: "These Northern governors and leaders are saying that for the sake of peace and unity of the country, the core North should be allowed to produce the Senate President to heal the wounds which led to the post-election violence.
"They claimed that the pattern of voting during the last presidential election amounted to a return to the era of Northern and Southern protectorates, which may not augur well for the unity of the country.
"The leaders are advocating a reconciliation and reunification of the core North with the rest of the country. There is a sense of loss and betrayal in the far North. Many people in both the Northwest and Northeast are not happy that the President is coming from another zone, despite the agreement by the PDP in 2002 that the North will produce the president in 2007 and 2011.
"The governors are also insisting on general amnesty for all the suspects arrested during the post-election violence as part of the reconciliation.
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Pressure mounts on Jonathan to appoint Northern senate president
Pressure mounts on Jonathan to appoint Northern senate president
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Friday, May 06, 2011
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That's bullshit!!!! after killing my brothers, and holding the position of the senate president for 8years they still now want the core north to hold the senate presidency! that's arrant nonsense! let this country split for Goodness sake! South easterners should be left alone to stay on their own plsssss!!! its not by force to remain in this rubbish one Nigeria! Easterners has continued to suffer whatever ethnic and religious problems in Nigeria. Leave Easterners alone Nigeria!!!
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