A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential aspirant and Former Senate President, Abubakar Bukola Saraki has said that the next President of the country should come from the North Central.
Speaking during a consultative meeting with the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) PDP delegates in Abuja, Saraki also promised to facilitate adequate compensation plan for indigenes of the FCT.
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Saraki said the country is in a very fragile situation and the country needs the right person to turn things around, saying; “If we don’t put the right person there, God forbid what will happen to Nigeria.”Â
The presidential hopeful also said it was the turn of the North Central to produce the next president, “We have come together to say, it is a time for North Central. This is not just my own, all of us will be making history, it has never happened before. Our children will continue to thank us for many generations because we made a difference.
“This ticket is not only my ticket, it is our ticket, all of us shall benefit from it. And that is why the whole 41 delegates here, not one should go anywhere because this is your own. Nobody leaves his own to go and take somebody else’s own. We will tell them in the past North Central has worked for other people, It’s time for them now to work for us. After they have worked for us this time, then we can talk about working for them again. This is for us. It is not for just me, It’s for all of us.”
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He told the delegates that he had been at the vanguard of fighting for the emancipation of Abuja indigenes that was why as “Senate President, nobody wanted Mayor for FCT to be in the Constitution and I passed it in the Senate. If you remember, I passed it in the Senate. I fought for it. Unfortunately those in the House of Representatives did not do it.
He also said, “when I’m president, when people want to come and develop Abuja, they will respect you. You will take real compensation, not the type of compensation they are paying, and I fight for it for you. For those of you who are potential developers, who says that Abuja indigene should not be developers?
“We will provide support in the housing sector to enable some of us also to be developers too, you too will be owners of homes.”
