A former Kano State Governor, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau, on Thursday,
faulted the clamour by some stakeholders for the emergence of a President of
Northern extraction in 2015. He described the call as rubbish.
He also argued that the recent defection of the state governor, Rabiu
Kwankwaso, from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress
would not affect the ruling party negatively.
Shekarau, who recently defected to the PDP, spoke with State House
correspondents after a meeting with Vice-President Namadi Sambo at the
Presidential Villa, Abuja.
He said he had always kicked against the idea of localising the
Presidency to a particular region.
He said, “I have never subscribed to the argument of localising the
Presidency to a particular region. If you had followed my arguments and my
presentations or debates during the presidential election, I said so. My
concern is what do we do to get the right leadership regardless of where it is
coming from.
“This issue of rotational presidency is not the issue. What we should be
talking about is balancing so that we can carry the people along. Today, if I
am a presidential candidate from Kano and I tell you that my running mate is
from Katsina, won’t you think I am crazy?
“Do I have to have that written in any document or constitution for me
to know that if I am a presidential candidate from Kano, my running mate has to
come from the other side?
“So, this argument that it has to be my turn and it has to be my village
man is all rubbish. It is the problem of lack of confidence among ourselves.”
When asked whether he was ready to campaign for President Goodluck
Jonathan if he emerged the PDP candidate, Shekarau said whoever turned out to
be the PDP candidate at any level would be his candidate.
On Kwankwaso’s defection, the former governor said, “His
(Kwankwaso’s) defection cannot kill PDP. Those who are current with the
situation on the ground know that the governor of Kano State had long before
now been out of the PDP
Some northerners still got sense sha
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ReplyDeleteShekarau is broke and sick. He just have to survive. He lost all his looted money to 2011 presidential election. That's the reason y he's jumping up and down to make ends meet. Please, just bear with him. He's also a coward, he does not want to be under Kwankwaso, that's why he ran to PDP.
ReplyDeleteShekarau either u like it or not,kwankwaso dom pass ur power to humilate,stupid man,u want to survive dats why u ran to dead pdp,who know he is there to assasin jonathan for d north,bcos he doesn't like christians bcos he is a sharia man,
ReplyDeleteAnonymous 11:26pm you are just attributing this religion to Jesus claiming him to be the founder. Jesus is not a Christian He don't even know the religion. If you are human enough I challenge you to quote any verse from the Bible where Jesus said He is a Christian or where the name 'Christianity' is mentioned. How can someone be a founder of a religion but not knowing the name of the religion, and had not pronounced it even once.............blasphemy! This is one of the reasons why Shari'a men hate Christians.
ReplyDelete@Ibrahim...dnt think dt way. U ar yet 2 understand sth about Jesus n Christianity. I hope u believe in God(All knower),pray 2 Him 2 let u knw d unknw about Jesus Christ n born again(Christianity).if nid fast pls fast....d scripture says u shall knw d truth n d truth shall set u free.pls dnt hate christians. They ar on d way Jh14v6. Pray 2 God over dis,d spiritual give birth 2 d physical.
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