Former Governor of Kano State, and Presidential Candidate on the All Nigeria Peoples Party, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau has said that the calls for a Northern presidency are misplaced.
Shekarau who recently decamped from the All Progressives Congress to the Peoples Democratic Party after Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso took over the leadership of APC in the state said he was prepared to campaign for President Goodluck Jonathan if he emerged the candidate of the ruling party.
Speaking with journalists after a meeting with VP Namadi Sambo, Shekarau said, “I have never subscribed to the argument of localising the Presidency to a particular region. If you had followed my arguments and my presentations or debates during the presidential election, I said so. My concern is what do we do to get the right leadership regardless of where it is coming from.
“This issue of rotational presidency is not the issue. What we should be talking about is balancing so that we can carry the people along. Today, if I am a presidential candidate from Kano and I tell you that my running mate is from Katsina, won’t you think I am crazy?
“Do I have to have that written in any document or constitution for me to know that if I am a presidential candidate from Kano, my running mate has to come from the other side?
“So, this argument that it has to be my turn and it has to be my village man is all rubbish. It is the problem of lack of confidence among ourselves.”