A political group, Rescue North West APC, otherwise referred to as Rescue Group, has called for the zoning of the Senate Presidency to the North West of the country.
This is as it also described Senator Barau Jibrin as the most appropriate person deserving of the third highest post in the country.
Rescue Group made the call in a statement made available and signed by its co-ordinator, Muktar Dahiru–gore.
The group premised its positions on the fact that the “North West contributed the most votes to help our ever resilient and politically savy, President- elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to win the 2023 presidential election, and that the North West zone contributed about 30 per cent of the mass of votes that made both the President -elect and the APC win the election.”
The statement reads in full:
“Our political group which goes by the name: Rescue North West APC, (Rescue Group) in short, consists of broad based political interest groups within our great party from the North West geo- political zone and it is a coalition put together to canvass the interest of the zone within the Nigeria political space.
“We have met across the states making up the zone in Kano, Katsina, Kaduna, Jigawa, Kebbi, and Sokoto, and we have resolved to put the following forward.
“1. We have watched with keen interest the attention which the office of the 10th Senate President has attracted and the jostling for the office among eminent distinguished Senators, as regards which zone should get the nod to produce the number three job
“2. Several reasons have been canvassed from the mundane to the sublime, which are not uncommon when people seek to grab at all costs plum positions and jobs. Everyone will justify why it should be theirs.
“3. We do not want to join the fray just for saying something but to point out succinctly why the North West should be the zone to produce the next Senate President based on the following empirical analysis.
“(A) The North West contributed the most votes to help our ever resilient and politically savvy, President- elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to win the 2023 presidential election.
“(B) That the North West zone contributed about 30 per cent of the mass of votes that made both the President -elect and the APC win the election
“(C) That people partake in politics worldwide to take over the reins of government to use and make the available resources for the greatest good of the greatest number of people and not to meet and satisfy sectarian indulgences such as religion and ethnic considerations.
“(D) That while the aim of religious faith is to guarantee a life after life, politics serves a diametrically opposed aim of making life more abundant while we live.
“4. It is therefore because of the reason that without winning an election, there would be nothing on the table to share that we drum support for the North West that contributes most to the election to derive the benefit of what they have worked for.
“May be we still need to understudy the phenomenon of winning elections in Nigeria. Winning election means devoting large scarce resources and considerable efforts into elections. Why then should the dividend be awarded to the one who expended less resources and energy for non-political considerations such as religion.
“We appeal, therefore to both the National Working Committee and the party chairman, H.E. Abdullahi Adamu, and in fact all other interests concerned to zone the Senate Presidency to the North West and give it to Senator Barau Jubrin who is the most experienced lawmaker from the zone.
“He has just been elected to the National Assembly as a Senator for the third time, having been voted in as a Representative once before.”
