The National President, Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Abdullahi Bodejo says the North would retain power in 2023 because Southerners were not patriotic enough to be trusted with power.
Bodejo disclosed this while reacting to calls in some quarters for the major political parties to zone the 2023 presidency to the Southern part of the country.
In an explosive interview published by Saturday Sun, the Miyetti Allah leader claimed that Northern leaders had done more to keep the nation together than their Southern counterparts over the years.
He said that Southern politicians if given the opportunity to become president could not be trusted not to concentrate developmental projects in their region.
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Asked if he supported power remaining in the North in 2023, the controversial Bodejo said:
Yes, power is going to remain in the North. Tell me one person in the South that is nationally accepted that can rule Nigeria like Buhari? The people who made Nigeria what it is today are from the North. People like Awolowo and Zik tried but where are such people in the South now? That time, they were patriotic and they did not allow themselves to be deceived with the issues of religion and ethnicity. They were patriotic and they believed in Nigeria. But most of the people now from the South who say they want to be president of Nigeria are not patriotic. They are selfish. Most politicians from the North are concerned about the unity of Nigeria and how to keep the country together, and not what they will gain from the position. God forbid that some kind of people would start ruling the country; I see some people that if you give them power, they can just concentrate everything in one area.
He added:
Do you know that if you go to some parts of the South, if they see an Hausa man, they would say he is a Boko Haram member or derogatorily, they will say ‘Onye Hausa’. That kind of hatred has been there among some Southerners. It will be difficult for the Igbo to rule this country because they have something in their mind that is not good. The country is more than a tribe coming to hate some ethnic region, religion and so on. They should know that Nigeria is one.