The senator who represented Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Shehu Sani, on Wednesday said that Northern political elites in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) risk being undermined by the mass of voters in that region if they “gamble to present a southern candidate” in 2023.
POLITICS NIGERIA reports that Nigeria’s main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), ended its presidential primary in Abuja last weekend with former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, emerging victorious.
Atiku’s emergence as the standard-bearer of the PDP has positioned the North as one of the winners that emerged from the opposition party’s presidential primary. The North currently has one of its own as President of Nigeria, in the person of Muhammadu Buhari, who will complete eight years in office in 2023.
If Atiku goes on to win the 2023 presidential election, it means the North will retain the Presidency for another four years and with the prospect of making it eight years.
For Sani, the outcome of the PDP presidential primary election has put the APC in a tight corner.
The APC’s presidential primaries comes up in June 6th and 7th.
“The biggest fear of Northern political elites in the ruling party is that the fanatical forces they unleashed to propel the mass of northern voters for PMB will now switch sides against them, if they opt or gamble to present a southern candidate,” Sani wrote on his verified Twitter handle.
