We Have Population To Dominate Nigeria For Decades — Northern Elders Forum
The Northern Elders Forum claims that the North has the population to rule Nigeria for decades, despite requests for the president to be allocated to the South in 2023.
“We will lead Nigeria the way we have led Nigeria before. Whether we are president or vice president, we will lead Nigeria. We have the majority of the votes, and democracy says vote whom you want,” insisted the NEF spokesman Hakeem Baba-Ahmed.
He said this in his keynote lecture at the Maitama Sule Leadership Lecture Series, which was held over the weekend at Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria.
Arguing the northern group’s position, he stated, “Why should we accept a second-class position when we know we can buy forms and contest first-class and we will win? Why does anybody need to threaten us and intimidate us? We will get that power, but be humble because power comes from God. We inherited leadership; being honest is not being stupid.”
In what appears to be a response to the southern governors’ forum’s demand that the South should produce the next president and that states should collect VAT, the NEF chieftain added, “There are clearly Nigerians who believe that because the economy of the North has already been crumbled and we are running away from insecurity, we are politically vulnerable – they think they can buy us for 2023.”
“They (the South) are making a mistake,” said Mr Baba-Ahmed.
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He asserted that though humble, the “North has pride.”
“We are humble enough to know that we are going to run Nigeria with other people. But we are not going to play second fiddle to anybody. We may not have the most robust economy,” he insisted. “There are people who are trying to strangulate us even more than we are being strangulated. We are ready for this.”
The NEF chieftain further pointed out that the northern region would overcome its current precarious situation.
“We will consider every economic adversity, challenge. We will fix the northern economy, and we are the only one who can fix this northern economy,” added Mr Baba-Ahmed. “For that reason, we are not for sale. We are in the process of rebuilding the North, and we will rebuild the North from 2023.”
In a six-point communiqué issued after a conference in Lagos in July, the southern governors stated that the North must provide the next president.
They also advocated states collecting VAT at a meeting last week in Enugu.
