Headline2023: Mamman Daura’s Views On Zoning Are His Own, Says Presidency

2023: Mamman Daura’s Views On Zoning Are His Own, Says Presidency

BEVERLY HILLS, August 01, (THEWILL) – President Muhammadu Buhari’s spokesman, Garba Shehu, says the views expressed by Malam Mamman Daura, President Muhammadu Buhari’s nephew to the BBC Hausa Service, are his personal views and does not in any way reflect that of the president or his administration.

Daura, the most influential figure around the President, said he preferred Buhari’s successor in 2023 to be chosen based on competence and not via zoning, an unwritten political arrangement between political leaders from the north and south that rotates power between the regions every eight years.

Buhari, from Katsina State, northern Nigeria, will complete his final term on May 29, 2023.

Garba’s Saturday statement reads:

“We have received numerous requests for comments on the interview granted by Malam Mamman Daura, President Muhammadu Buhari’s nephew to the BBC Hausa Service.

“It is important that we state from the onset that as mentioned by the interviewee, the views expressed were personal to him and did not, in any way, reflect that of either the President or his administration.

“At age 80, and having served as editor and managing director of one of this country’s most influential newspapers, the New Nigerian, certainly, Malam Mamman qualifies as an elder statesman with a national duty to hold perspectives and disseminate them as guaranteed under our constitution and laws of the land. He does not need the permission or clearance of anyone to exercise this right.

“In an attempt to circulate the content of the interview to a wider audience, the English translation clearly did no justice to the interview, which was granted in Hausa, and as a result, the context was mixed up and new meanings were introduced and/or not properly articulated.

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“The issues discussed during the interview, centred around themes on how the country could birth an appropriate process of political dialogue, leading to an evaluation, assessment and a democratic outcome that would serve the best interest of the average Nigerian irrespective of where they come from.

“These issues remain at the heart of our evolving and young democracy, and as a veteran journalist, scholar and statesman, Malam Mamman has seen enough to add his voice to those of many other participants.”

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