Southern Governors Meeting Gang Up Against North, Buhari – ADP Chairman

Sani Yabagi, the national chairman of Action Democratic Party (ADP) says that that southern governors posturing and disposition is akin to that of separatists like Sunday Igboho and Nnamdi Kanu.

Embattled Igboho and Kanu are the respective leaders of agitations for Yoruba Nation and Biafra Republic.

Igboho has been declared wanted after an attack on his Ibadan residence by Department of State Service agents who killed two persons in the process last Thursday, while Kanu has been detained after his repatriation back to Nigeria to face trial.

In a communiqué signed by Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, governor of Ondo State and Chairman, Southern Governors’ Forum, southern governors rejected the revenue sharing formula contained in the recently passed Petroleum Industry Bill, insisted on ban on open grazing and electronic transmission of election results and that southern region must produce the next president in 2023.

Speaking on Channels TV on Monday, Mr Yabagi, who was ADP’s presidential candidate in the 2019 election, however said the meeting of southern governors is a gang up against Northern Nigeria, adding that the governors are not different from agitators calling for the balkanisation of Nigeria.

2023: North Fires Back At Southern Governors

“All the things listed in that communique from their meeting seems to be a kind of ganging up against the North,” Yabagi said.

“When you look at the grazing issue, insecurity, the issue of politics of 2023, how can we have elected officials, governors for that matter, coming in this manner to emphasise things that divides us? Not talking about things that unites the country beats my imagination.”

Yabagi said the southern governors should be deliberating on issues that unite the country and not those that amplify its fault lines and differences.

“It is unfortunate that we don’t have governors today coming together on issues of principle. These governors are not anything better than Igboho or Kanu or any person’s not elected to protect the nation.

“By now we shouldn’t be talking about these dichotomies that have nothing to do with good governance,” Yabagi added.

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