Northern Youth Group Insist On Voting Southern Presidential Candidate

The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF) has said that it “most respectfully disagree” with a northern elder statesman, Alhaji Sani Zangon Daura on the north supporting a northern candidate for the presidency in 2023.

AYCF, in a press statement signed by its national president, Alhaji Yerima Shettima, said the choice of a southerner for president by the region was clearly in the spirit of justice because Nigeria does not belong to the North alone, or Muslims and Christians of the North.

The group insisted that “even on moral grounds, the most responsible political action by the North was the decision on powershift in 2023, because the Presidency cannot be hereditary and Nigeria is not a Banana Republic”.

Shettima further said the elder was expressing his personal opinion and not the stand of the North in general, saying that a “ little balancing was needed in the position of our father Zangon Daura, moreso when he admitted that the elders are mere escorts for the younger generation today”.

The AYCF noted that when 13 Northern governors led by Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir Elrufai endorsed a Southern candidate for the 2023 presidency, they repeatedly cited political justice.