2023 Presidency: Northern group drums support for Emefiele in Gombe
Ahead of the 2023 presidential elections, a group of supporters of the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele on Thursday, in Gombe called on him to contest for Nigeria’s president.
The group under the aegis of Unified Northern Nigeria Youths’ Forum (UNNYF), said Emefiele has the capacity to salvage Nigeria, adding that he can make hundreds of millionaires in his first term in office.
The Convener of UNNYF, Mohammad Danlami, said the group is made up of about 40 youth organisations from the North, revealing that Emefiele is although from the South but North at heart.
Danlami also called on the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and other political parties in the country to choose Emefiele, as consensus candidate owing to his qualities.
According to him, “This is largely seen in the intervention programmes he initiated as the CBN governor that is mostly targeting the development of agriculture. He initiated several intervention programmes that have greater impact on the North and Northerners.
“The CBN governor needs to reason with us and bury his personal interest and contest for the betterment of Nigeria.”
While commenting on the choice of Emefiele at the helm of affairs, the group noted that poverty would be alleviated as well as youth restiveness and other social vices with him as president.
“It is an established fact, that there exists a strong nexus between poverty, human security, national insecurity, and food insecurity.
“Through his interventions in agriculture and actively engaging idle youths who are a soft target for recruitment into various insurgency groups and consequently clamping down on insecurity,” he added.
While urging stakeholders in Gombe, to work for the emergence of Emefiele, Danlami stated that the group sees hope, vision, commitment and development in the CBN governor.
He said, “Posterity will not judge us right and history will not be fair to us, if we as Northerners, refuse to support Dr Godwin Emefiele as our only presidential candidate in the North.”
