Shocker – ‘Why I Won’t Support a Northern President’

Shocker is the word coming from governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, given his antecedents as a politician from the north.

 He has said that he won’t support a northerner emerging as president of the country come 2023, an opinion likely to draw the ire of core north politicians.

El-Rufai’s reason is based on principle: the zoning arrangement though not constitutional but based on the political reality in the country, and he believes it should be respected.

“The southern part of the country is supposed to produce the president come 2023; I don’t support a northerner to vie for the seat after President Muhammadu Buhari, based on Nigeria’s political arrangement”  El-Rufai was quoted by the Cable as saying based on a n interview on BBC Hausa service.

“That is why I came out and said that after President Buhari has been in office for eight years, no northerner should run for office. Let the southerners also have eight years.

“If you look at how I am, I don’t take anyone to work with me for the zone he came from. The eligibility I look at is if who is entrusted to the public will hold it properly.”

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Refuting umours he himself was interested in the office, he said: “It has been said that I have loved the presidency since I was a minister in the FCT.

“This is nonsense. I do not want the Nigerian presidency. God gives power, whether you like it or not, if He wants it, He will give it to you, but I have never sought the presidency of Nigeria, no one can say I have ever sought it.”