2023 presidency: Nnamdi Kanu weakens South-East’s chances, Yakasai says
- Alhaji Tanko Yakasai says the secessionist agitation by Nnamdi Kanu and his group will cost the southeast the 2023 presidency
- Specifically, he says this weakens the chances of the Igbo people to produce a credible presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections
- According to him, the South-East geopolitical zone must convince Nigerians beyond any reasonable doubt that it is ready to occupy the exalted office
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Alhaji Tanko Yakasai has sent sent an important message to the people of southeast. According to the elder stateman, secessionist agitation by Nnamdi Kanu and his proscribed group, weakens the chances of the Igbo people to produce a credible presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections.
Punch Newspaper reports that he said the south-east geopolitical zone must convince Nigerians beyond any reasonable doubt that it is ready to occupy the exalted office in 2023.
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He said:
“The card is on the southeastern people’s desk. It is up to them to try to reach out. I’m a strong supporter of a president from the South after Buhari and also if he can come from the south-east I have no problem.
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“My quarrel is that this is not something you just stay at home and pray that people will just dash it to you; you have to show interest, you have to be serious, you have to try to convince people that you are really up to the task. This is what in my opinion is missing from the South-East.
“There is that desire on their part but they are not exact in their position to manifest that desire to convince people that are rarely serious about it.
“There is this anxiety in Nigeria about the position of the South-East because it is surprising to many people including people like me…This Nnamdi Kanu who ordinarily to me would not be a good candidate for the governorship of any of the South-Eastern state is now claiming the attention (and) support of prominent people in the South-East is making people doubt if the South-East is really ready to produce a credible candidate that would help Nigeria as a whole. That doubt is there.”
2023: Elder statesman Yakasai confirms Tinubu’s presidential ambition, opens up on APC leader's visit
In another report, Yakasai has opened up what he discussed with Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in his Abuja residence.
Tinubu who is strongly believed to be nursing a presidential ambition in 2023 had on Wednesday, November 24, visited the elder statesman.
The 96-year-old stated that the All Progressives Congress (APC) national leader was at his home to solicit support for his presidential ambition in 2023.
Yakasai, a founding member of the Arewa Consultative Forum revealed that he would support the former Lagos state governor’s presidential bid in the next general elections.
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In a related development, Salihu Tanko Yakasai, a former media aide to Kano state governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, says the potential presidential candidate of the APC is in the southwest geopolitical zone, not in the southeast.
The former media aide claimed the southeast zone does not have the political number and candidate with national appeal and weight to pull votes across the country in the forthcoming elections.
Yakasai stated this on Friday, September 24, when he appeared as a guest on Arise TV. He was sacked earlier in 2021 for criticising President Muhammadu Buhari over the rising security threats in the country.
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