2023: Northern Elders Give Requirements For A Southerner To Be President

Posted by Nwa Diokpa Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The spokesman for the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, has given the requirements for a politician from the South to become the next president.

Speaking on Arise TV , Baba-Ahmed tasked Nigerians to see beyond religious and ethnic sentiments in the 2023 general elections.

According to him, the demands of the southern governors that their region must produce the next president were not well presented.

He said: “You cannot threaten us with violence and intimidation. We can read the constitution; we know what it takes to be the president. You have to score at least 25 percent in 24 states. There are no 24 states in the north, which means no northerner can become president, unless he gets support from the southern part of the country.

“By the same token, no southerner can become president unless he gets support from the north. We understand this; we are not ignorant. We know there will be a time when someone from the south will become president.

“But it must be a president that will emerge through the political and electoral process. He must be a president that southerners and northerners both like and vote to make him or her president.

“He must be a Nigerian president, not an ethnic president, not a regional president, not a religious president.”