Atiku, El-Rufai: Pick presidential candidate from Southwest – Shehu Sani to coalition

Former Kaduna Central Senator, Shehu Sani on Monday said the opposition coalition should pick its presidential candidate from the Southwest.

Sani said picking a presidential candidate from the Southwest would be in the interest of fairness, equity, and justice.

Addressing a press conference in his residence in Kaduna, Sani said: “If there should be another presidential candidate from the opposition, that candidate should be from the South West because that is equity, justice and that is fairness.”

He argued that “under the last administration, all heads of the security apparatus were from Northern extraction, they never stopped terrorism in the North, they never stopped banditry in the Northwest, they never stopped killings in Benue state, in Plateau, and most part of the North central states.”

Northerners like former Vice President Atiku Abubakar; former Kaduna State governor Nasir El-Rufai; former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal are heading the opposition coalition.

Recently, El-Rufai said the opposition would ensure that President Bola Tinubu is removed from power in 2027.

Over the weekend, Atiku had described himself as a conspirator against Tinubu’s administration.

He accused Tinubu’s administration of weaponizing poverty in Nigeria.