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By Akinwande Soji-Ojo
Following the clamour for power to return to South in 2023, a former Senator from Kaduna State, Shehu Sani, has said that the only way the southern region can produce the president is for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to pick their candidates from the zone.
Sani stated this in a post on his verified Twitter handle, on Tuesday.
“Power will shift to the South only if the candidates of the two main political parties are picked from the South,” he said.
Both APC and PDP have not decided on where to zone their presidential tickets.
The APC national chairman, Abdullahi Adamu, had last week said that the party was yet to decide on zoning.
But Adamu’s statement had 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, however, added that the people that could not be ignored in the elections in 2023 remained the “Northern poor.”
“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,” the former lawmaker said.