A northerner, Ismaila Yusuf, has disclosed why he will vote for the Labour Party (LP) candidate for the 2023 presidential election, Mr. Peter Gregory Onwubuasi Obi.
According to Yusuf, after 47 years of rulership by Nigerians of northern extraction, things are only getting worse in the region.
In retrospect, however, he stated that Nigeria civil war was fought in the South East for three years but rebuilt their region in record time.
He noted, meanwhile, that poverty is the lowest, literacy is the highest, mother death at childbirth is the lowest,” in the region.
“But our Arewa leaders will keep telling us Igbo man is our problem,” he lamented, adding that his vote in 2023 “belongs to Peter Obi of Anambra state.
He enjoined fellow northerners to eschew ethnicism and not “vote [the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Alhaji Abubakar] Atiku because he is your fellow Arewa or [All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Alhaji Bola Ahmed] Tinubu because he is your fellow Muslim”.
In a series of tweets on his Twitter handle, @TruthToArewa, Yusuf wrote:
My fellow Arewa, I’m here to deliver a simple message.
Nigeria independence – 1960
Nigeria as independent country- 62years
Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa- 1960-1966 (6 yrs)
General Yakubu Gowon- 1966-1975 (9yrs)
General Murtala Muhammed (7mths)
Alhaji Shehu Shagari – 1979-1983 (4yrs)
Major General Muhammadu Buhari 1983-1985 (2yrs)
General Ibrahim Babangida 1985-1993 (8yrs)
General Sani Abacha 1993-1998 (5yrs)
President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua 2007-2010 (3yrs)
President Muhammadu Buhari 2015-2023 (8yrs)
Total Northern rule – 6+9+4+2+8+5+5+8 = 47yrs
Northern rule 47yrs out of 62yrs as an independent country.
Highest out of school children – North
Highest poverty – North
Highest insurgency – North
Highest mother death at childbirth – North
Highest children death – North
Nigeria civil war was fought in the South East for 3 years!
Yet they rebuild their region and today poverty is the lowest, literacy is the highest, mother death at childbirth is the lowest. But our Arewa leaders will keep telling us Igbo man is our problem.
2023 my vote belongs to Peter Obi of Anambra state. If you like vote Atiku because he is your fellow Arewa or Tinubu because he is your fellow Muslim. All of us will learn our lesson eventually. (NEWS BAND)
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