10th Assembly: Ex-CAN youth president, Kadzai, backs Tinubu’s zoning formula

A former National President, Youth Wing of the Christian Association of Nigeria (YOWICAN), Engr. Daniel Kadzai, has pitched a tent with Nigeria’s President, Bola Tinubu, insisting that the 10th National Assembly Senate President should come from Southern Nigeria.

Kadzai also backs President Tinubu’s decision to zone the Speaker of the House of Representative to the North-West.

Our correspondent had reported how the National Working Committee (NWC) of the ruling party endorsed Senator Godswill Akpabio from the South-South as Senate President while Senator Barau Jibrin from the North-West was picked as his deputy.

In the House of Representatives, the party endorsed Tajudeen Abass from the North-West as the Speaker and Benjamin Kalu from the South-East as deputy.

Supporting the zoning formula, Kadzai said that for equity and fairness, status- quo should be maintained.

Speaking in a statement he personally signed on Tuesday, he said the North should not drag anyone into the kind of nepotism former president Muhammadu Buhari plunged the country into.

“When former president Buhari came into office in 2015, we complained about his lopsided appointments. His style of leadership regionalized and tribalised Nigeria. Buhari positioned himself as a nepolistic leader. Buhari’s thinking was either Cow or Fulani.

“We cannot afford to go that way again, and we are calling on President Tinubu to maintain his zoning arrangement.

“The Nigeria’s President is from the South, while the Vice President is from the North and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation is from the North, it is natural that the Senate President should go to the South.

“It should be given to either Senator Godswill Akpabio or Senator Orji Uzor Kalu”, he said.

Kadzai decried that the North always wanted to set the country in flames by their dominance in the political space, insisting that no northerner should contest for the seat of the Senate President if the country must remain together.

The former CAN youth president, who also hails from northern Nigeria, claimed that some of them who want justice to always play a role in the country are more northerners than the so-called northerners who claimed to be the owners of the country.

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He opined that the third or fourth generations of some northerners are not from Nigeria but from Niger Republic.

“People like us from the North, our first, second and third generations are from Nigeria, but those who always claim they are northerners and want to destroy this country are not from Nigeria. If you trace their origin, you will find out that their third generations are not from this country.

“We gain nothing from them, rather than Boko Haram, Insurgency and Violence. If we don’t have Fulanis who live in the bush accommodating bandits, will we have kidnappers?” Kadzai said.