Anyone Who Loves Nigeria Won’t Support Northern Muslim For Senate President

A member-elect of the house of representatives, Abdulmumin Jibrin says anyone who loves Nigeria will not support a northern Muslim lawmaker as senate president.

Speaking on Wednesday in a television interview, Jibrin said using the 1999 template, the next senate president should come from the south-east geopolitical zone.

Since Bola Tinubu, president-elect, and Kashim Shettima, vice president-elect, are both Muslims, there have been insinuations that there is a need for religious balancing in leadership positions of the national assembly.

Commenting on the situation, Jibrin said the positions of the deputy senate president and speaker should be zoned to the north-central and north-west, respectively.

“My personal opinion — if you look at the entire controversy of the Muslim-Muslim ticket, I think anybody who loves this country should not be thinking that the number 3 position should be a northern Muslim,” he said

“The appropriate thing is that the position should go to a southern Christian. I believe that anybody who wants it the other way round loves himself more than the country.”