Group cautions Mamman Daura over comment on 2023 presidency
- Mamman Daura continues to receive flak for his comments on the 2023 presidency
- A group, Middle Belt Professional Forum, has cautioned President Muhammadu Buhari's nephew over his comments
- According to the group, Nigerians will only support a president from Ndigbo extraction
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A group, Middle Belt Professional Forum, has cautioned President Muhammadu Buhari's nephew, Mamman Daura, over his comments on the 2023 presidential election.
Daura, said to be the most influential man around the president, had in an interview with the BBC Hausa Service on Tuesday, July 28 said the most qualified person from any part of the country should succeed his uncle.
In a statement sent to journalists on Wednesday, July 29 in reaction to the comment, the president of the group, Prince Moses Dalyop, on described Daura as “a deceptive and treacherous hypocrite.”
The group accused the president's nephew of “looking for a way of imposing another northern bigot on Nigeria as president from the back door.”
The statement continued: “We know his old tricks and we are shocked that Mamman Daura should raise his voice about who will be the next president of Nigeria.
“As someone who is known to be behind Buhari's failed presidency, Daura should first apologize to Nigerians for the superlative incompetence that his nephew has visited on Nigeria.
“Under him, Nigeria became the global capital of poverty, corruption and has grown in leaps and bounds in insecurity, banditry, terrorism and ethnic-based cleansing even in his home state of Katsina.”
According to the group, Nigerians will only support a president from Ndigbo extraction, adding that such a position is “sacrosanct and non-negotiable.”
The group urged other ethnic and political groups to come together to support an Igbo president in 2023, stressing that “it is a matter of justice, fairness and equity.”
The group further reminded Daura to be careful and desist from making further reckless utterances “especially as two of his closest allies who have made such statements have suddenly and mysteriously disappeared.”
“Daura should stop playing god. We wonder why he has not asked himself where his friends in the cabal who boasted like him a few months ago are currently.
“We do not pray that such a fate visits him but he must shut his mouth and go back to Daura and enjoy his loot. No one can usurp the sacred power of Nigerians to choose their president. Power belongs to God,” the group said.
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Similarly, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has responded to comments by Mamman Daura saying the 2023 presidential contest should be based on competence and not rotation.
Reacting to the comments, Chief Emeka Attamah, the media aide to the president-general of Ohanaeze, Chief Nnia Nwodo insisted that it is the turn of the south, particularly Ndigbo to produce the president in 2023.
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