Former Borno State governor, Senator Kashim Shettima, has said some ‘Judas Iscariot’ in the southern part of Nigeria are working against realisation of the power shift to the region ahead of the 2023 presidential election.
This is coming as some Nigerians have argued that the next president after the incumbent, Muhammadu Buhari, who is from the North, must come from the South.
However, with the emergence of former vice-president Atiku Abubakar as the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), some members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have also suggested that giving the APC ticket to a northerner was the only way to defeat the PDP in 2023.
Shettima, while on a visit with a presidential aspirant, Bola Tinubu, to Ogun State, expressed concern that some Judas Iscariots from the South were “hellbent on becoming spoilers” to scuttle the chances of the South to produce the next president.
Speaking in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, Shettima maintained that the enemy of Southern Nigeria is often not the Northern Nigeria but men and women of its own stock, “the Judas Iscariot of the Southern race, who are ever ready to play the second fiddle”.
The Senator said some presidential aspirants from Ogun could not garner more than 10 votes at the APC presidential primary election, stating that such aspirants would end up becoming spoilers.
Ogun State indigenes in the APC presidential race include Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo; former Governor, Ibikunle Amosun; former House of Representatives Speaker, Dimeji Bankole and Pastor Tunde Bakare.
