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I'll not step down for anybody---
Shekarau
By Chuks Ehirim Newsdiaryonline Mon 14/3/11
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Nigeria Peoples Party presidential candidate, Malam Ibrahiim
Shekarau, has debunked the rumour making the rounds that he
willl step down for another presidential candidate from the
North, saying that he is the most credible and acceptable
candidate from the region and would not step down for anybody.
Spokesman of the ANPP presidential candidate, Malam Sule Yau,
made this remark in Abuja Sunday night
when seventy –two party
chieftains from the Niger Delta, endorsed Shekarau for the
presidential race at the Aminu Kano House, in Asokoro Abuja.
Yau told newsmen that Shekarau cannot be asked to step down for
any person. He argued that it is the other candidates from
the Northern part of the country who may be asked to step down
for his principal,
adding that not even the northern political leaders would ask
the ANPP candidate to step down.
Stating what happened recently when Shekarau was qouted to
have said that he would be willing to step down for a Northern
consensus candidate for the Presidential election, Malam Yau
said that Governor Shekarau, out of his humility and simple
demeanour, had responded to an interviewer on a Television
programme that he would be willing to step down if asked by the
Northern Leaders Caucus to do so, an answer which he said is
being misinterpreted.
Yau who spoke to journalists in Abuja, assured that the entire
North has accepted the candidacy of his principal as the most
fresh and reliable among the candidates from the North who bears
no grudge with anyone nor has any score to settle with any.
In his words: ''Nigerians are beginning to identify a candidate,
not a party; Nigerians are beginning to identify the right
candidate that will lead this country; I believe this is what is
going to happen in the forthcoming election. Nigerians are
tired; Nigerians are yearning for change and the person to bring
that change is Malam Shekarau.”
Also speaking the Shekarau Solidarity Movement, led by Chief
Kingsley Okoafor said they had endorsed the ANPP candidate in
interest of the nation irrespective of their party affiliation,
saying that Malam Shekarau would bring his achievements in Kano
to bear in the entire country.
He said he is championing a course to mobilize Nigerians,
describing Malam Shekarau as a good product. ''I have seen the
man that has transformed Kano, I have seen the man Nigerians can
rely on to get to the next level; I have seen the man that has
broken the jinx of underdevelopment in Kano”,Okoafor said
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