Ango Abdullahi in trouble over statement saying North would rule for 100 years

Crack between the North and Southwest continues to widen as both regions jostle over which region would produced Buhari's successor come 2023.



The Southwest had hoped its alliance with the North which helped President Buhari defeat Jonathan in the 2015 presidential election, deserves to be rewarded by allowing the region produce the next president.

It does however, seem that whatever deal the two regions made prior to Buhari's emergence as President, is not working out quite well as the North seeks to retain power beyond 2023.


Prof Ango Abdullahi who served as the Chairman of the Northern Elders Forum, has in a recent statement claimed the North would hold on to power for next 100 years which means chances of a Southwest President in 2023 is nothing but a pipe dream.

Abdullahi's obviously didn't go down well with Southwest leaders and now calls for the latter's arrest has been made a group in the Western region.




Spokesperson for YAYON, Ojo Bright, in a statement said that Abdullahi was inciting the North against the South with this words, adding that it was against the unity of the country.


He said, “We find it inciting, berating and wish to call the attention of the world and President Muhammadu Buhari to this proposed and orchestrated attack against other regions in Nigeria.

“The statement credited to Ango Abdullahi affirming political dominance by one region is tantamount to a terrorist attack on the collective unity of Nigeria.



“As a matter of necessity, a statement of such magnitude should never be credited to anyone who has the interest of Nigeria at heart.

“We urge him to immediately retract the reckless statement.

“The President must show his patriotism by directing the Department of State Services to arrest and prosecute Ango Abdullahi for preaching division, ethnic chauvinism, secession, and making statements capable of causing incitement and revolution.


“Every patriotic Nigerian must support the conventional arrangement for power rotation in the country.”