The idea of zoning the Presidency is rubbish - Shekarau

Former Kano State Governor, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau has described the clamour for the emergence of a President from the North in 2015 as rubbish.

The former Presidential Aspirant who spoke with State House correspondents after a meeting with Vice-President Namadi Sambo at the Presidential Villa, Abuja said he has never been in support of the idea of localising the Presidency to a particular region.
“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.”

Shekarau who recently defected to the PDP said the Kano Sate Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso’s defection to the APC would have no negative impact on the PDP in that state.

“His defection cannot kill PDP. Those who are current with the situation on the ground know that the governor of Kano State had long before now been out of the PDP," the ex-governor said.