•  Insist Southerners can’t have the president, CJN, and still control national assembly

A cross section of northern leaders are demanding that the region must produce the leadership of the 10th National Assembly given that the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, and the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, are both from the southern part of the country.

The leaders representing the 19 northern states and drawn from the academics and political class argued that their demand for the North to head the legislative arm of the Federal Government was in line with Section 14(1), (2) and (3) of the 1999 constitution.
The northern leaders made the demand at a one-day round-table discussion in Kaduna state on Friday to review the region’s socioeconomic challenges and its contributions in Tinubu’s victory in the 2023 general elections.
The round-table, which drew participants from across the 19 northern states, had the theme ‘Nation-Building and Democracy, the Imperative of Participation, Equity and Equitable Development of Northern Nigeria’.

The leaders representing the 19 northern states and drawn from the academics and political class argued that their demand for the North to head the legislative arm of the Federal Government was in line with Section 14(1), (2) and (3) of the 1999 constitution.
The northern leaders made the demand at a one-day round-table discussion in Kaduna state on Friday to review the region’s socioeconomic challenges and its contributions in Tinubu’s victory in the 2023 general elections.
The round-table, which drew participants from across the 19 northern states, had the theme ‘Nation-Building and Democracy, the Imperative of Participation, Equity and Equitable Development of Northern Nigeria’.

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