The conversation concerning the unity of the north is still on.
A former governor of Plateau state, Senator Jonah David Jang says the north is not one
The former PDP presidential aspirant stated that the middle belt needs to be on its own and not regarded as the north.
Former governor of Plateau state, Senator Jonah Jang has lamented that northern Christians are being oppressed in the north, adding that the people want to be separated from the Hausa-Fulani.
According to him, the northern Christians want to be under a different regional identity known as the middle belt.
Speaking to Daily Sun in an interview published on Saturday, January 23, Jang, who was a presidential aspirant under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2019, said the ethnic minority from the middle belt should be given the opportunity to produce the president in 2023.
Jang has stated that the Middle Belt don’t want to be part of the core north.
He kicked against the rotation of the presidency between the north and the south and instead advocated that the middle belt should be included among the regions to benefit from the rotation of the nation’s number one job. His words:
When I was running for the presidency in 2019, I went to see one of the top leaders in this country and you know the presidency has always been rotated between the major tribes except for Jonathan that got it because of the death of President Yar’Adua, I call it by accident.
“You remember, just to allow him to act before the death of President Yar’Adua, it was war. What was I told by that leader?
He said as good as I may be, he cannot see how a Christian minority will win an election in Nigeria, this is the first time I am saying this out.
“It has come to a time that we have to start talking out. So if there is going to be a rotation of the presidency, then it has to be between the north, the Middle Belt, and the north otherwise, no Middle Belter can be president, I didn’t hear it as a rumour, I was told face to face.
“He stated that the northwest is the biggest beneficiary of the rotation, adding that politicians from the region are already gearing up towards 2023.
He advocated for the major political parties in the country to review their rotation policy to accommodate the Middle Belt.
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