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The polity is twitching sequel to 17 Southern governors’ demand at their meeting last Monday in Lagos, that the South should be allowed to take a shot at the presidency in 2023.
Tongues are wagging over the issue as many political bigwigs from the North see it as a way of shutting them out of the presidential race.
Pundits have argued that zoning can only be guaranteed by political parties which field candidates for various political offices.
While the leading opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has recognised and enshrined in its constitution that there shall be power rotation between the North and the South, the Constitution of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has no such provision.
But in an interview with newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja, Yarima said it was wrong for anyone to agitate for power shift to his region.
The former governor said he is fully in the 2023 presidential race, adding that coming from the same North-West geo-political zone with President Muhammadu Buhari, whose tenure elapses in 2023, is not a threat to his political ambition.
“I’m in the race, I have already declared my intention and I’m mobilising by the grace of God. At least, Mr. President won the election with a little above 15 million and I assure you, before I even declare officially, I would have had 20 million supporters,” he said.
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Fri Feb 26 2021
In the concluding part of our videos on a peep into a bandits’ den, Shehu Rekep says as a 16-year-old, he was one of the first herders to take up arms shortly after Governor Ahmad Sani Yarima declared Shari’ah in Zamfara State.
But first he talks about his readiness to persuade his people to lay their arms if they are offered a peace deal.