“We demand our rights from Tinubu” – Coalition of Northern Groups replies OPC
The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has told the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) that they will continue to demand their rights from the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu because he secured the largest number of votes from the Northern region that led to his victory at the last presidential election.
The Spokesman of CNG, AbdulAzeez Suleiman, while addressing newsmen yesterday, cautioned different socio-cultural groups that the North is neither afraid nor apprehensive of their designs and they will remain resolute in protecting its legacy and inherited responsibility to all northerners.
He said the response became necessary following the reported remarks by the OPC, ‘threatening’ the North against demanding what is due for them from the President-elect.
They reminded the OPC that Tinubu was able to overcome strong opposition to coast to victory through the efforts of the North, and that is where the claim to commensurate reward comes from.
The CNG said Tinubu got more votes from the North-West — the largest voting geo-political grouping in the country — than from the South-West, his home zone.
According to AbdulAzeez Suleiman, no one expects that the incoming president will run an administration that will give the North what it does not deserve, but pointed out that no one also can deny the North the right to speak for what is legitimately due to it.
He noted that while the North will continue to support the incoming administration of Bola Tinubu in the task of rebuilding a nation united around the values of justice and honest enterprise, those northerners who insist on fair sharing of positions are not his enemies.
