Despite early indications from several Southern politicians that they may run for President in 2023, the national leadership of the Miyetti Allah Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) has stated that the organization will not back any southern candidate in the race.
Bello Bodejo, the National President of the cattle breeders group, told The Sun and SaharaReporters that they will not back a southern candidate in the 2023 Presidential Election because southern candidates lack the capacity to successfully run the country.
He intimated that over time, the North has shown that there is unity among themselves and there is no element of tribal or ethnic discrimination, a quality he said was missing among the people of Southern Nigeria.
” Even though Nigeria is one, we are not going to support a southerner as president.
A president from the North is better because Northerners are better managers of the nation than southerners.
” The North has demonstrated that there is no difference among them in the region.
They don’ t show this is Fulani, this is Hausa, and this is this and that, unlike in the South.
Northern people have managed the country better than Southerners” he said
” The North has demonstrated that there is no difference among them in the region.
They don’ t show this is Fulani, this is Hausa, and this is this and that, unlike in the South. Northern people have managed the country better than Southerners.
” If your enemy asks you to join him to scatter your father’ s house, can you support him to break your father’ s house? You shouldn’ t do that. But if he overshadows you and you help him to accomplish that, you would cry later.
” It will be very difficult for a southerner to manage Nigeria the way a Northerner would. The Northerners that are ruling or governing were trained by our leaders that ruled the country before, ” he added
Analyzing the controversial grazing routes, Bodejo said the Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom was playing politics with the Fulani adding that states must return lands earlier marked as grazing routes for the herders.
” Ortom wants to be a hero by force.
After the end of his tenure, even to be a councillor in his village, he can’ t get it. He is doing politics with the Fulani.
” He was the first person that called for the stoppage of Fulani from grazing their cattle, but we went to court to stop his evil plot and that is why he is running here and there, asking Buhari to declare Fulani organisations as terrorist groups, ” he stated