Northeast group wants Emefiele to contest 2023 presidency

Story from Ahmad SAKA, Bauchi

The group at a political gathering held at the Pali suite on Thursday in Bauchi State said that they were mobilising youths as well as other citizens of the state to garner support for Emefiele to vie for the seat of the presidency in order to salvage the country from all the challenges bedevilling it.

The  Coordinator of the movement, Alhaji Abbas Abubakar Aliyu, who spoke on behalf of the group, said that it was time for the position of the presidency to be zoned to the South-east where Godwin Emefiele hails from, adding that an Igbo man has equal rights for the president.

Aliyu said that their reasons for calling on the CBN Governor to contest for the seat of the president in 2023 were in recognition of his laudable achievements and policies recorded in the CBN. Adding that CBN intervention such as the Ancho-Borrowers Scheme has helped in massively reducing poverty that was seen to be endemic in the northeast region through the provision of farm inputs and one digit interest rate facility.

“We are here gathered in Bauchi State today to enlighten the general public on the need to call on Mr Emefiele to contest for the seat of the president in 2023. However, he needs our support to enable him to fulfil his political aspiration. We want him to know that youths in the Northeast part of the country are with him and will stand with him through thick and thin”.

“We have so many personalities in the country, declaring their intention to contest the seat of the president in 2023, but Dr Godwin Emefiele stands out amongst all of them because of his track record of commitment, hard work, integrity and patriotism he displayed when he took over the mantle of leadership of the Central bank of Nigeria, during the administration of former President Good luck Jonathan and subsequently reappointed by President Muhammadu Buhari till date,” he said.

The Coordinator said that the group will carry out massive campaigns in all the twenty local government areas of the state, including door to door campaigns to sensitise citizens of the state on the need to support the presidential ambition of Godwin Emefiele.

He called on all Bauchi stakeholders, religious leaders, traditional institutions, business tycoons, youth organisations to join forces with North-east movement and prevail on Dr Godwin Emefiele, to yield to the audible call of Nigerians and contest for the number one office of this country.