Northern leaders of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) have dissociated from the demand of the party’s former national secretary, Sani Abdullahi Shinkafi, for the chairmanship position of the party to be zoned to the north.
The former secretary’s insistence that the post be zoned to the north had further polarised the party along ethnic lines ahead of its national convention scheduled for May.
The objection was contained in a statement by the party deputy national chairman (North), Abubakar Adamu, after a meeting of the northern leaders of the party in Sunday in Dutse, Jigawa state.
The leaders, therefore, called on all party faithful to disregard Shinkafi’s demand, saying that the northern leaders of the party were neither part of the Kaduna meeting nor were they contacted for such an important decision.
The statement, which was signed 25 northern leaders of the party, stated that the former national secretary had on April 20 chaired a meeting with some unknown people in Kaduna, and demanded for the chairmanship of the party to be zoned to the north.
The leaders dismissed the demand insisting that it was purely selfish and did not represent the interest of the north.
