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2023 Presidency : North will not succumb to blackmail, threat , intimidation from South – ACF

Vital News by Vital News
May 6, 2022
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By Kola Adeyemi

Kaduna – The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has frowned at the use of threats and intimidation by some southern politicians in their agitation to get parties to zone the 2023 presidential ticket to their region.

The ACF which stated this in a statement in Kaduna
on Thursday said only negotiation will ensure that the presidency is zoned to the South and not the use of force, threat and blackmail.

In the statement signed by its Secretary-General, Murtala Aliyu, the Forum explains that the North is not against or opposed to the election of any Nigerian from any part of the country as President.

It, however, noted that such should be done in line with the law and democratic principles.

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“It has to be stated clearly and for the avoidance of any doubt that the North does not seek to dominate any part of the country but will not submit itself to be relegated to serfdom.

“Those issuing ultimatums are to be pitied knowing that they know not what they are doing. They own no patent nor monopoly of the art or science of ultimatums.

“Enough of the blackmail, ” the statement said.

According to the ACF, despite the north ruling only for ten out of the 22 years of democracy in the country’s fourth republic, some southern politicians are still blackmailing the region with dare warnings against the election of any northerner as president.

FULL STATEMENT AS ISSUED BY ACF .

ENOUGH OF THE BLACKMAIL

A long-running political riddle that has continued to frustrate all efforts at achieving ‘justice, equity and fair-play’ is this: anything and everything in which the North has superiority or advantage or strength is, in the opinion of many Southerners, fake or contrived or speculative and therefore unacceptable.
These Southerners contest the facts that the North has 78% of the landmass of Nigeria.

They refuse to accept that the North has over 55% of the population of Nigeria. They won’t concede that the voting population in the Northwest region of the North alone is bigger than those of the Southeast & South-south combined.

They will never acknowledge the fact that all the beef, all the tomatoes, the onions, the beans, etc. consumed in the South, is produced in the North.

“They concede nothing.

On the contrary, they say the North brings nothing to the table and is entitled to nothing. Not to an equitable share of national revenues, not to a fair share of employment in the public services, or to admissions into public schools.

If the law says, for example, that election outcomes must be based on one man one vote, they quickly dismiss it as an ‘imposition’ by Northerners.

They contest every fact, every principle including those that formed the basis of our union such as our federation, our system of administration, our⁷ democracy, etc.

And as we inch up towards the 2023 elections, it comes as no surprise that some Southern politicians are giving their Northern counterparts an ultimatum which roughly translates thus: elect no one from the North as President, or we will break up the country!

It has to be stated clearly and for the avoidance of any doubt that the
North does not seek to dominate any part of the country but will not submit itself to be relegated to serfdom.

Those issuing ultimatums are to be pitied knowing that they know not what they are doing. They own no patent nor monopoly of the art or science of ultimatums. Enough of the blackmail. (vitalnews)

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