Former Kaduna Central Senator, Shehu Sani on Monday advised the opposition coalition to pick its presidential candidate for the 2027 election from the Southwest.
Sani said this would be in the interest of fairness, equity, and justice.
Sani, while addressing a press conference in his residence in Kaduna, said, “If there should be another presidential candidate from the opposition, that candidate should be from the South West because that is equity, justice and that is fairness.”
“Under the last administration, all heads of the security apparatus were from Northern extraction, they never stopped terrorism in the North, they never stopped banditry in the Northwest, they never stopped killings in Benue state, in Plateau, and most part of the North central states.”
Northerners like former Vice President Atiku Abubakar; former Kaduna State governor Nasir El-Rufai; former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal are heading the opposition coalition.
El-Rufai recently said the opposition would ensure that President Bola Tinubu is removed from power in 2027.
Over the weekend, Atiku had described himself as a conspirator against Tinubu’s administration.
He accused Tinubu’s administration of weaponising poverty in Nigeria.
