2015 presidency: North on its own –Ebute Our Reporter July 10, 2013 … Says no going back on Jonathan From AIDOGHIE PAULINUS, Abuja Third Republic Senate president, Ameh Ebute, yesterday dissociated the Middle Belt from the plan by northerners to have the presidency returned to the zone in 2015. Ebute’s reaction was sequel to media report credited to the Secretary General of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), Prof. Ango Abdullahi, on the unanimous front by the North to produce a consensus candidate for the 2015 presidency. Abdullahi had in the report, said: “We succeeded in bringing in the Middle Belt Forum, though they said they’ve been left out, we say no. We are going to work together.” But speaking with Daily Sun in Abuja, the National Coordinator of the Congress for Equality and Change, said: “Members of the Congress for Equality and Change, some of whom are also members of the Middle Belt Forum, are not part of the Middle Belt Forum that has agreed to discuss with NEF, with a view to producing a single candidate for 2015 from the North. “We cannot blow hot and cold. We, the members of the Middle Belt, who constitute members of the Congress for Equality and Change, along with our South-South brothers, have already taken a position that President Goodluck Jonathan is our candidate for 2015. “We are not part of NEF who said the presidency must come from the North. We in the minority South-South and minority Middle Belt in the North, are unanimous that President Goodluck Jonathan, is our candidate for 2015, that if the North wants to produce any presidency, it should be after the second term of President Goodluck Jonathan. This is our stand,” Ebute insisted. While saying that he was not afraid if power returned to the North in 2015, Ebute said, “power can return to the North if they win.” According to Ebute, “if they have a unanimous candidate and they win the election, nobody will question the return of power to them. But the North that they are talking about does not include the Middle Belt. That is the offending statement.” Ebute further said: “Anytime they talk about the North, they mean the North-West. They do not include us. And we say we are tired of supporting people who will never include us in any election. So, this is the problem.
Posted on: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 12:18:01 +0000
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