Show Compassion Respect Principles Of Rotational Arrangement, Allow Tinubu’s Complete 8 Years, Yari
From Muhammad Kabir, Kano
The Director-General of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, Senator Abdul Aziz Yari Abubakar, has pleaded with the Northerners to allowed President Tinubu complete his eight year tenure as a way of respecting the already established Nigeria Rotational Presidency.
Yari, speaking to newsmen at the Kano Government House after holding an indoor meeting with Kano State Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf, Saturday, hints that the only viable things now is for the North to be gentlemanly in this arrangement and allows Tinubu complete his eight year tenure.
The former Zamfara State governor said the North should understand and respect the political arrangement that brought the presidency to the South in 2023, arguing that the presidency had been held by a northerner for several years before the emergence of Tinubu.
Yari said, “66 years ago since independence, the country was led by northerners for 47 years,” adding that Nigerians should recognise the importance of maintaining unity and understanding how the country’s political system operates.
According to him, Nigeria remains a country that all citizens must work together to protect, regardless of regional or political differences.
“As we love this country, we don’t have any country other than Nigeria. Nigerians should come and understand how this country works. It is also better than many nations,” Yari said.
The APC chieftain explained that his role as Director-General of the campaign council was not limited to promoting President Tinubu but also included promoting national unity and understanding among Nigerians.
Yari said the current political arrangement should be respected, noting that former President Muhammadu Buhari, a northerner, governed the country between 2015 and 2023 before power shifted to Tinubu from the South in 2023.
“Having said this, this country, Nigeria, from 2015 to 2023 was led by a northerner, and now from 2023 to 2026 it is led by a southerner,” he said.
He therefore appealed to northerners not to seek to overturn the existing zoning arrangement on the basis of the region’s population, saying the political understanding was important for national stability.
“If we say we want to uproot the zoning arrangement because of our numbers, then my call for northerners is to understand how it works. They even understand more than I do,” Yari said.
He acknowledged that President Tinubu’s administration, like every government, was not perfect, but argued that the challenges facing Nigeria should not solely be attributed to the administration.
“Nobody is perfect. The southerners have also experienced what we are complaining about today when President Buhari was in power,” he said.
Yari also argued that insecurity was not peculiar to Nigeria, saying countries across the world, including the United States, continue to grapple with security challenges despite their level of development.
“On problems, no problem of a country is solved by any government, including even in the United States. They are managing insecurity as we are managing it,” he said.
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