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Shehu Sani says only a northern candidates can win 2023 Presidential sit
Shehu Sani, a former Kaduna lawmaker, revealed that the only way the southern region of Nigeria can produce the president is for the All Progressives Congress or the People’s Democratic Party to pick a northern candidate. He said this as a result of the uproar by some Nigerians and political groups for the zoning of the 2023 presidency to the South-East.
Sani’s tweet on Tuesday read, “Power will shift to the South only if the candidates of the two main political parties are picked from the South.”
However, the APC and the PDP are still undecided on where to zone the presidential ticket.
Adamu’s statement had however met severe criticism from indigenous groups like the Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum, who stated that neither Adamu nor the Northern Elders Forum, could kill zoning, adding that politicians should not attempt to be cunning about the discussion on zoning.
Sani had added in another tweet that the people that could not be ignored in the elections come 2023 remained the “Northern poor.”
He said, “The most critical group of voters no national political party will ignore are “the Northern poor”. They vote in the direction of their sentiment and the interest of those who control them, and not on their collective plight.
Zoning is a political practice in Nigeria under which political parties agree to split their presidential and vice-presidential candidates and also alternate the home area of the president between the north and south of the country. The principle of zoning is designed to ensure that neither the north nor the south of the country is ever permanently excluded from power and that no one party is seen to monopolize power. The concept of zoning was initially introduced in the Second Republic, following the Biafran Civil War of 1967–1970.
