Senator Abdulaziz Yari, the former governor of Zamfara state and aspirant for the senate presidency, has rejected the APCs zoning of the position to the south-south, as he said the North is underrepresented in this government.
In an interview with ARISE NEWS on Tuesday, Yari lamented the fact that the North was not given any opportunities in governance in the incoming administration, simply because the President-Elect and Vice-President Elect ran with a Muslim-Muslim ticket.
In response to the zoning, Yari said, “I haven’t seen wherever in the constitution where it says Christian must be president, Muslim must be president or vice president” He went on to say that the constitution did not recognize Islam or Christianity, that all the constitution recognized was the right to religion. “If president elect decides to do a Muslim-Muslim ticket, that is the business of the president and the executives. And if the parliamentary decides to do a Muslim-Muslim, it is the business of the parliament,” saying that there had been times in the country where the parliament had chosen Christians for the roles of Senate President, Deputy Senate President, and Speaker of the House of Representatives at the same time. He then said that they needed to find more reasons why a Muslim-Muslim ticket was something to be cautious about, because the reasons on ground were baseless.
Yari went on to point out how the major people in this administration’s governance- the President, Senate President, Future Chief Justice of Nigeria, are all from the south. He then said that after the north provided over 60% of the votes Tinubu garnered to win the election, it was unfair for the APC to expect the North to be satisfied since the Vice-President hailed from the North-East.
The former governor then confirmed that he was still in the running from the senate presidency, and that the zoning did not phase him in the least.
Ozioma Samuel-Ugwuezi
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When Governor Yari cites and vehemently insists on the Nigerian Constitution, we ask: is he really serious?
As a complicit(?) former Governor, and prominent member of the political elite, of a (Zamfara) state where the right to religion of non-Muslims is frequently abridged; and, as one , who never uttered a word of protest while, and after, his state pioneered the violation, and continues to egregiously violate, the Nigerian Constitution, by illegally extending Sharia laws beyond its Constitutional remit; it is quite rich that Ex Governor Abdulaziz Yari could now be copiously citing , and vehemently insisting on, the Nigerian Constitution to support his arguments in this interview. Given this antecedent, Governor Yari is simply being hypocritical and self-serving!
Truth is that the north alone, regardless of the magnitude of the votes she cast for the APC, could never have solely delivered the presidency to Tinubu; and this had been so amply demonstrated in Buhari’s 12 years in the political wilderness. Whereas, in 2011, it was largely a southern Nigeria and middle-belt (north central geopolitical zone) coalition that propelled Goodluck Jonathan to power, he gave positions to the north (especially north west and north east) that was disproportionate to the votes he received from those zones. Hence, Governor Yari is well-advised to mind his theory of “proportionality”, and stop issuing threats! Ironically, and as one of his interviewers pointed out to him – to his annoyance, Governor Yari has led one of Nigeria’s poorest states, and is also a prominent member of the political elite of Nigeria’s poorest and underdeveloped region, yet he is not sober enough !
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