A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress in Kano, Muazu Dansarauniya has come out to urge the party leadership to settle for a Senate president from the North-West and Kano in particular.

He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and Nigerians have been reacting.

According to him, this decision is key in order to create a strong base for the party in the region in the face of other opposition parties wanting to take control.

He added that it is only democratic for the party’s leadership to ensure that the seat for the Senate presidency goes to the northwest and to Kano, the political heartbeat of the North.

His words, “Why this response is very important is that I heard my friend and brother from the NNPP, Abdulmumin Jibrin Kofa, who has just been elected as member House of Reps saying that any candidate from the North, especially the Muslim North, that aspires to lead the National Assembly, especially the Senate, has no love for Nigeria.”

“I want to open this discussion to clearly reveal what is behind the discussion. I believe that is unfair for a minority party to basically come in and dictate to the APC what to do.”

“But very importantly we need to look at the motive behind this statement. We know that Jibrin is from NNPP and the NNPP leader is from Kano and Kano is the heartbeat of north-western politics as well as northern Nigeria.”

“So, what they are trying to do is to strategically convince APC not to put a political leader in that space so that they can monopolise the politics of the region. We can see their plans.”

“Therefore, if NNPP people are saying that you don’t love Nigeria if you say you are giving us the Senate presidency, it is just a strategy to mobilise and have the entire Northwest to themselves which is a very important block.”

“Some people talk about fairness and equity in terms of politics. I want to highlight this, democracy has a principal rule; this rule is about participation.”

“You cannot participate and then ask for a reward. The people that are asking for a reward, we are asking them to galvanise themselves, organise themselves in the next election and contribute to the success of the party.”

“So, you cannot basically deny the party votes and when the party is basically and equitably and fairly sharing its positions you now say because of national unity, you want to take the critical position.”

“All I’m saying to our brothers in other regions is 2027 is not far away, go back, work hard, join us to make success of the next election and you will get your fair share of reward and recognition.”