Northern Elders Forum opposes zoning of presidency to South or any region - 2023

 

The Northern Elders Forum has hostile the clamor for zoning of the 2023 presidency to the South, announcing strength have to stay withinside the North.

In a keynote cope with brought on Saturday on the Meeting of Northern Leaders of Thought, NEF spokesperson, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, cited that each Nigerian and place had the constitutional proper to run for the presidential race.

The group's remark comes days after the National chief of the ruling All Progressive Congress, Bola Tinubu, introduced his purpose to run for the 2023 presidency.

While handing over his speech, Baba-Ahmed said

“For the North, we can not say it louder. A Northerner have to be voted President best if he's the best. Being Northerner isn't always enough. All Nigerians want suitable leaders, however for us withinside the North, we can call for to peer proof that a candidate does now no longer simply need strength to satisfy a non-public ambition. 

We need to peer proof that people who need to guide us in destiny apprehend the roots of and answers to our lack of confidence and poverty and distances from every other. 

We need to recognise how irredentism can be handled; how and whilst fundamental adjustments in our systems and structures can be made to cope with famous grievances over the manner our us of a have to operate; how our financial system may be re-engineered to acquire sustainable improvement and paintings for the wealthy and the terrible equally, and the way our younger can be groomed to come to be productive, sincere and patriotic citizens. 

We will call for to peer an inclusive and in a position crew so one can marketing campaign with the candidate and transit with him into governance.

We need a very well Nigerian President who can be as difficult at the bandit as he can be on secessionists and insurgents. We need a president with imaginative and prescient and the strength to retrieve a rustic at the verge of disintegrate and area it securely at the course of stability, protection and growth.

We are, of course, far from subsequent year’s elections, however it will likely be risky to disregard symptoms and symptoms that the adventure from this factor till the ones elections may want to area the us of a in more danger. 

"We have to warn politicians to keep away from destroying a rustic they searching for to guide. We have to call for that the combat towards organized, violent crimes is intensified. We want to enhance elite concord even withinside the context of intensely-divisive electoral campaigns."