Speaking about the 2023 general elections and the agitations for power shift to the South, Baba-Ahmed said the heavens will not fall if a northerner is again elected the next president of Nigeria.
“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, there are people who are trying to strangulate us even more than we are being strangulated. We are ready for this
“We inherited the North that determined where Nigeria went. We dropped the ball and we are leaving you to pick it. The North needs young people to be strong enough.”“A northerner is a respectable Nigerian. We can live with our poverty but we cannot live with a sense of disrespect and anybody who toys with our respect, we will fight them to the end. We will surprise them in 2023 because we will vote for who we want, including the Northerners, and nothing will happen.
She said most of the great leaders Nigeria has produced stepped into leadership positions as youths, hence the youth of today must grow up and stop the idea of waiting for the elders to do everything for them. The Southern Governors’ Forum had resolved to collect Value Added Tax in their states during their meeting last week at the Enugu State Government House.
“Southern governors should stop insisting on VAT collection when the case is still in court. They should stop self-help on the issue of VAT to avoid action that may lead to anarchy,” ACF said.Meanwhile, the Senate president, Ahmad Lawan, had called on all Nigerian political leaders to come together in a bid to tackle the challenges facing the country, stating that no region can solve its problems alone.
“I want to say that today’s challenges are surmountable. All we need is to come together as a people, and face the challenges no matter how difficult they may appear. “We are facing, not only political but even security challenges today in all parts of the country. What this requires is for all parts of Nigeria, particularly political leaders, to come together.
“I want to urge all political leaders in this country to come together to understand that no part can handle a problem that engulfs all parts – that all parts must be united to deal with a problem that engulfs all parts,” Lawan said.
The north seems not to realize that people will usually vote across religious line, d so call large population of the north ll be divided across religious line there making the humongous northern christian to vote for a southern president, this was why obj and gej defeated pmb
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