ADP Chairman Lambast Southern Governors Over Position On 2023 Presidency, Anti-Grazing Law, Alleges Gang Up Against President Buhari

By Akinwale Kasali

“They Are Not Different From Sunday Igboho, Nnamdi Kanu”

Sani Yabagi, the National Chairman of Action Democratic Party, has lashed the Southern Governors Forum over its position on the 2023 Presidency and the Anti grazing law.

Yabagi alleged that the Governors are plotting and ganging up against the President Muhammadu Buhari administration and Northerners.

He described the Governors of Southern extraction as behaving like Yoruba Nation activist, Sunday Igboho and Nnamdi Kanu of the Indigenous People of Biafra.

Speaking on Politics Today on Channels Television, Yabagi, who was ADP’s Presidential candidate in the 2019 election, described the meeting of Southern Governors as a gang up against Northern Nigeria, adding that the Governors are not different from agitators calling for the balkanisation of Nigeria.

“All the things listed in that communiqué from their meeting seems to be a kind of ganging up against the North.

“When you look at the grazing issue, insecurity, the issue of politics of 2023, how can we have elected officials, governors for that matter, coming in this manner to emphasise things that divides us? Not talking about things that unites the country beats my imagination.”

“It is unfortunate that we don’t have governors today coming together on issues of principle. These Governors are not anything better than Igboho or Kanu or any person’s not elected to protect the nation.

“By now we shouldn’t be talking about these dichotomies that have nothing to do with good governance”, Yabagi added.

He further said Southern Governors should be careful not to scare Northerners who control the chunk of the votes that will determine whether power shifts to the south or remain in the North.

“I think we are getting it wrong and the earlier these governors wake up to their responsibilities of ensuring that this country remains one strong insolvable the better for everybody.

“The way they are going will scare the North and the North in fact controls the largest chunk of the vote they need to become the president of this country,” Mr Yabagi warned.

In a communiqué signed by Southern Governors’ Forum , it unanimously rejected the revenue sharing formula contained in the recently passed Petroleum Industry Bill, insisted on ban on open grazing and electronic transmission of election results and that southern region must produce the next president in 2023.