May 02, (THEWILL) – The leadership of the Supreme Council of Islamic Preachers in Nigeria, has thrown its weight behind agitations for a Nigerian President of Southern extraction, urging all political parties to zone their presidential tickets to the south.
This was contained is a statement signed on Monday by its Director of Media and Publicity, Sheikh Muhammad Nourayn Ibn-Ahmad.
The Council, which insisted that a Southern Presidency in 2023 was non-negotiable, observed that the Northern region would have had its turn of eight years in the Presidency at the end of the Muhammadu Buhari administration in 2023.
This is the highest call from any single bloc in the North, in what appears to be a rallying call in support of intense agitations from Middle Belt Forum, Afenifere and Ohanaeze, the Yoruba and Igbo socio-cultural groups respectively.
The Council urged their followers and the Muslim faithfuls “to consider a power shift to the Southern region in all their political deliberations ahead of the 2023 general elections in the interest of fairness, justice and equity.”
It also expressed concerns about the senseless killings in the land and prayed for a speedy end to the country’s insecurity.
The Council prayed for “a speedy end to incidents of banditry, kidnapping and the general insecurities across the country and urged Muslim faithfuls to imbibe lessons of the Ramadan Bibarakatullah.”
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