APC Chieftain has revealed what will happen if another northerner succeeds Buhari.
Newsone reports that a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Nigeria’s ruling party, Joe Igbokwe, has reacted to the remark by the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), on President Muhammadu Buhari’s successor.
The APC Chieftain warned that heaven would fall if another Northerner is elected after Buhari.
This online news platform recalls that NEF spokesperson, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, had said the North was not ready to relinquish power in 2023.
The NEF spokesman had said anyone against a Northern president should leave Nigeria if one emerges in 2023.
Baba-Ahmed had disclosed this at the Maitama Sule Leadership Lecture Series in Zaria, Kaduna.
Reacting to the statement on his Facebook page, Igbokwe wrote: “Heaven won’t fall if another Northerner is elected president – Hakeem Baba-Ahmad.
“Me- Hear me well, heaven will falloooo.”
Newsone Nigeria reports that most Nigerians have frowned against the North producing the country’s next president. Against this backdrop, the Southeast has been clamouring to produce Nigeria’s next president with Southern governors insisting recently that their region should produce Nigeria’s next president.
