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It Will Be Unfair, Immoral, Unjust For A Northerner To Succeed Buhari - Arewa Youths Consultative Forum President, Shettima
Posted by Thandiubani on Sat 31st Dec, 2022 - tori.ngHe made this known during an interview with Daily Sun's Tunde Thomas.
The National President, Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF) Alhaji Yerima Shettima has stated that it would be unfair if a northerner succeeds President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023.
He made this known during an interview with Daily Sun's Tunde Thomas.
Speaking on Nigeria's future after President Muhammadu Buhari, he said:
It will be very unfair for another Northerner to step in after Buhari. It will be immoral and unjust. For equity and justice, Buhari’s successor should come from the South. It will be unfair for us to support a Northerner to emerge as Buhari’s successor. The South should produce Buhari’s successor.
Although I’m not an advocate of zoning, and I will never support zoning because it is not in Nigeria’s constitution but for fairness, and justice, and for the sake of Nigeria’s unity, the Presidency should come to the South in 2023.
However, it is Nigerians that will decide, and to that extent, the choice will be made by Nigerians. But like I said earlier for fairness, and justice, it should be the turn of the South in 2023. Nigeria belongs to all of us, and we must give everybody a sense of belonging.
On insecurity across the country, he added:
It is very bad. It is very alarming. We never had it so bad in the country. But whatever has a beginning must surely have an end and this is why the federal government must rise up to the occasion.
This is not what Nigerians expected, having voted for the APC, a party that promised change in 2015. This is not the kind of change Nigerians bargained for security-wise. But I believe strongly that there will be a change for good if government approaches the issue with all the seriousness it deserves.
We can have community policing or state police to compliment the efforts of the federal security agencies. This is how it is done in other places. You have the federal and the state police. They complement one another.
But we should get it right first at the federal level. More work is still to be done by the military, then state police or community policing can now come in.
Although there is no country in the world that is crime-free or where you have perfection, what we are saying is that our security agencies have to improve on the present situation. They have to do more because nobody can tell me that these bandits and kidnappers are more powerful than the government or armed forces..
Speaking on restructuring, he said:
There is no alternative to restructuring if we want to become a great nation. Our leaders claim that Nigeria is a federal state and that we are practising federalism, but this is nothing but a false claim.
What we are practising is seriously flawed federalism. It is a mockery of true federalism. The central or what we call the federal government is too powerful, and this is not supposed to be so in true federalism.
I have always been an advocate of restructuring, and I believe that this is the time, or for the new govt that is coming after Buhari to embrace restructuring because there is no alternative to it if we want to realise our potential as a nation.
We need to decentralize in order to make the centre less attractive. We need to devolve more powers to the federating units as too much power is concentra -ted in the hands of the central government.
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