The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has rejected the position of
the Southern governors that the South should produce the President come 2023.
According to the Forum, the North would not be compelled
into yielding a democratically elected office.
The Northern Elders Forum through its Director of Publicity
and Advocacy, Dr Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, observed that as far as the North was
concerned, the idea that it would be indirectly threatened or intimidated or
blackmailed into yielding an office which ought to be settled democratically is
not acceptable.
The NEF sees the decision of the southern governors as an
expression of sentiment that could be best discussed within a political
process.
According to the forum, “We are running a democratic
government and decisions over where the next president comes from are basically
decisions that will be made by voters exercising their rights to choose which
candidate best serves their interest.”
Dr Hakeem Baba-Ahmed explained that the southern governors
come from the two dominant parties: APC and PDP, saying that they must have
some influence in those parties.
He noted that the way it should be done was that the
southern governors should influence their parties to zone the presidency to
southern states and then work to convince Nigerian voters from all parts of the
country to vote for that candidate.
He opined that the democratic rights of Nigerian citizens to
vote for a candidate cannot be snatched by threats or intimidation, stressing
that politicians were becoming very lazy to think they will be given leadership
in a manner that suggests an ultimatum.
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