A Northern political group, Progressives for Umaru Tanko Al-Makura, on Wednesday rallied support for a presidential candidate of Southern extraction in the forth coming 2023 general election.
The group, consequently, revealed that for fairness and equity, the 2023, a Southerner should emerge as Nigeria’s President.
This was even as the group also drummed support for the immediate past governor of Nasarawa State and senator representing Nasarawa South in the National Assembly, Senator Umaru Tanko Al-Makura, to emerged the next national chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
The leader of the group, Hon Makpa Malla, while addressing a press conference yesterday in Abuja, maintained that the presidency of the country should always rotate between the Northern and Southern parts of the country.
Malla, who was accompanied to the press conference by a member of the House of Representatives representing Awe/Keana/Doma federal constituency of Nasarawa State, Hon. Hassan Nalaraba, as well as former members of the Nasarawa State House of Assembly, called on Senator Umaru Al-Makura to step out and vie for the national chairmanship of the APC.
He said, “We therefore stand firm on our belief that a Senator Al-Makura’s chairmanship of the ruling party would further solidify and consolidate the party’s gain so far; create a strong atmosphere of trust, unity and inclusion, which are crucial elements the party requires at this moment to expand its horizon and make further gains going forward.”
Appealing to the national leaders and critical stakeholders of the APC to see reason and zone the national chairmanship position of the party to the North Central, with a view at encouraging the feeling of inclusion amongst the party ranks, Malla concluded by appreciating the Governor Mai Mala Buni-led National Caretaker Committee of the APC for reconciling aggrieved members of the party, restoring lost members and bringing in new members into the APC, who include state governors, senators, House of Representatives and state Houses of Assembly members into the party.
