Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum (SMBLF), has frowned at the recent statement said by Alhaji Ango Abdullahi, Chairman of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), that zoning is “dead and buried” warning that “if zoning is buried, Nigeria is then buried”. Information Guide Nigeria

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According to INDEPENDENT, the group in a statement yesterday signed by Chief Dr. E. K. Clark, National Leader, PANDEF and Chairman, SMBLF, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, Leader, Afenifere, Prof. George Obiozor – President-General, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, and Dr. Pogu Bitrus, National President, Middle Belt Forum, maintained that the question that arises from that grievous statement is, are they now ready to dissolve the country? What has happened that zoning, which has been a sine qua non in the nation’s political progression has now become a “dead and buried” issue, in the irrational contemplations of Ango Abdullahi and his co-travellers?

The statement reads, “Could it be due to the perplexing incapacity, insipidity, and disastrous performance of the Buhari administration or their narcissistic ambition to perpetuate Hausa/ Fulani Hegemony? SMBLF cautioned political parties and political stakeholders not to tinker with the issue of zoning and rotation of political offices especially, the presidency; warning that doing so would further threaten the bare threads of the Nation’s unity.

“A few days ago, this same Ango fumbled with the idea of a so-called consensus arrangement for Northern presidential aspirants, the backlash of which he has not come out from, to now spring this reckless declaration that zoning is “dead and buried”. jamb results

“Ango and his Northern Elders do not have the right, much more the power, to kill and bury zoning! But, if it’s Nigeria entirely that they want to “kill and bury”, let them be left with no doubt that we are ready for them.

“The history of zoning between the North and the South is well-known to everybody in this country and has been respected by all the major political parties in Nigeria.

In the Second Republic, the National Party of Nigeria, NPN, adhered to the policy of zoning.

The People’s Democratic Party, PDP, has also, since its formation in 1999, adhered to the zoning of principal elective offices.

“Most recently, in 2018, the PDP firmly observed the zoning arrangement by having only northern aspirants participate in the party’s presidential primary, which was held in Port Harcourt”.

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