Influential Northern Elder Statesman Tells Nigerians to Oppose Call By Top Emir Concerning 2023 Election
- Nigerians have been urged to oppose calls by some leaders in the north for voters to support and vote for their people during the elections
- Tanko Yakassai said two first-class emirs in the northern are pitching the people against making their choice of presidential candidate ahead of the 2023 polls
- The elder statesman further urged the people to ignore the level of hatred and divisiveness being preached by the northern leaders
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An elder statesman, Tanko Yakassai, has alleged that two leaders in the northern part of Nigeria are making efforts to destroy the pan-Nigerian dream.
Vanguard reports that Yakassai condemned the call by the Emir of Daura, Alhaji Umar Farooq Umar urging northerners to vote for their own in the 2023 general elections.
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In a statement personally signed by him, Yakassai warned that it is important for all to oppose the dangerous attempt to turn back the history of the country.
He noted that in the past, some traditional rulers were used by politicians as tools to promote negative trends in political campaigns.
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Also calling on a first-class emir to resist being used to destroy healthy political systems in Nigeria by reinventing tribal politics, Yakassai alleged that a former minister of agriculture in Nigeria, Alhaji Sani Zango Daura that urged northerners to vote for their own in the forthcoming elections.
According to Yakassai, through this action, Zango alleged that the first-class emir was not only divisive, and unhealthy, but outdated.
His words:
“I have noticed an attempt by some political players trying to revive the already discarded practice where some politicians were using some misguided traditional rulers to use their exalted positions to engage into political campaigns to denigrate some parties in order to undermine their standing in the society.
“I see here a conscious effort by these two foremost Northern leaders to destroy a pan-Nigerian dream where every citizen can’t nurse a legitimate ambition.
“Although, I am now an old man, I still have some strengths to fight such negative tendencies from raising their ugly heads in our present-day healthy political atmosphere."
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The call to the Nigerian leaders was made by Peter Obi, the 2023 presidential candidate for the Labour Party.
According to Obi, 2023 is an opportunity for Nigerians to turn things around for their own good in the country
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The call for the support of Peter Obi was made by an Igbo socio-cultural association, Igboekulie on Thursday, December 22.
The association said that the former Anambra state governor ticks all the presidential boxes needed to drive Nigeria to the desired development.
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