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Wednesday 4 September 2013
If David West Is Picked, North Will Alllow Power Shift - Ango Abdullahi
Spokesman of the Northern Elders
Forum, NEF, Prof. Ango Abdullahi
Sunday affirmed that the north would
allow another Southerner in the
person of former petroleum Minister,
Tam David West to emerge as the
president only if he is anointed for
the 2015 presidential race.
He gave this condition
while speaking on a
Kaduna based Liberty
Radio programme, Guest of the Week.
Abdullahi, a former vice chancellor of
Ahmadu Bello University, ABU, who has
been canvassing for a northern president
in 2015, seems to have swallowed his
words when he said he would support a
candidate like Prof. Tam David West as a
potential presidential candidate from the
South-South.
According to him, most Nigerians no
longer trust President Goodluck Jonathan
because he had betrayed the process
that brought him into office.
"I have challenged somebody and told
him that let them produce Prof. Tam
David West as presidential candidate
from the South South, I will raise my
hands in support because of the issue of
competence. There is no way you can
compare the President with David West
in terms of their records of achievement.
There is no doubt in my mind that Tam
David West can run this country more
efficiently than the current President.
"I am trying to raise the moral ground
on which I will not trust the current
president because he has not been
trustworthy. If he wanted to be
trustworthy, he would have to go to the
north and say, I was VP to Yar'Adua
under a zoning arrangement and that if
Umaru had lived, he would have been
President for eight years; but Umaru has
died and we know it is the right of the
North for the remaining period.
"If he had acknowledged this
understanding, it would have been
purely a different matter," he said.
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