The Northern Elders
Forum (NEF) has said that while Vice President Mohammed Namadi Sambo being the
highest public office holder from the region is the leader of North, he is
however powerless because he has no constitutional powers as enshrined in the
1999 Constitution.
Former minister of
Agriculture and a member of the Forum, Alhaji Sani Zangon Daura, stated this on
behalf of the forum during an interview
with DITV monitored in
Kaduna yesterday.
He added that Sambo
has no support of Northern governors, adding that he was warned not to accept
the offer to be vice president made to him by President Goodluck Jonathan in
May 2010, following the demise of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua.
He said, “When we
heard that he will be made vice president, we sent
direct emissaries to
him that he should not accept the offer, because
it has no use and he
will just be a portrait.
“In the Constitution,
we are using; he has no use and will do nothing. We warned him not to accept,
nobody is powerful like governor, just like no one is powerful than the
President at the top.
“There is nothing he
can do, and if God has helped us for governors
to be with him,
because they are not with him unlike what it was during
Atiku with Northern
governors, he will have been powerful, but they
are not with him
today. If they are together they will have been
working together and
we are certain they are not.
“We always intimate
him, like when we met the president, he was aware, but we are careful so that
we don’t create problem of loyalty between them; like it happened during
Obasanjo and Atiku.”
Source: Blueprint
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