2023 election: Youth group calls for North-Central presidency

A group of youths from North-central Nigeria, North Central Network For Better Nigeria, has urged registered political parties in the country to pick their candidates for the 2023 presidential election from the north-central geo-political zone of the country.

The request, according to the group, was based on the fact that the north-central geo-political zone of the country has not produced the president of Nigeria since the country returned to civil rule in 1999.

The Director-General of the group, Comrade Abdullahi Jibrin Muregi, who stated this during a press briefing in Minna Niger state Capital said that their demand is coming at a time that leaders of other zones are scheming to produce the President come 2023.

“We appeal to their collective consciousness for equity Justice and fairness drop their ambition and rally round the North Central Zone in its justifiable bid to produce the successor of President Muhammadu Buhari come 2023.

 “We believe that our demand is not out of place having painstakingly worked for other zones in the past to produce the presidency or to emerge as the Vice President of Nigeria through the large block of votes we always deliver to the winning political party in all elections since 1999,” Comrade Muregi said.

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Muregi further mentioned that when given the opportunity, the North Central Zone will provide purposeful visionary and result-oriented leadership to Nigeria.

He pointed out that the North-central zone of Nigeria will play its usual traditional role of uniting Nigeria as demonstrated by the like Generals Yakubu Gowon, Ibrahim Babangida and Abdulsalami Abubakar who stopped the Nigerian civil war, the 1976 coup and return Nigeria to civil rule respectively.

Muregi added that the agitation of the group will make the country remain United as doing so will be in the spirit of equity fairness and unity of the country.

“The North Central Zone presidency will naturally be positioned to mend cracks in the body polity of our diverse but United nature which amplifies our equality in the zone,” he said.

Zainab Sa’id