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Atiku: I was misrepresented on zoning, age

Former Vice-President Alhaji Atiku Abubakar said his view on zoning when The Fix Nigeria Group, visited him in Abuja. A transcript of the meeting made available by his media office, quoted Atiku of telling the group that Nigeria as a multi-ethnic and multi-religious country, there should be a sense of belonging.

He admitted saying zoning was not in the constitution, recalling that had heated argument with Dr. Alex Ekwueme at the Constitutional Conference, on zoning but later apologised to him. Atiku noted that he accused Ekwueme of in-troducing zoning to break the country but, “later on, I apologised to him and told him: ‘you reason better than myself.

I was emotional in my reasoning. I think the zonal thing that you are proposing is a good thing.’” The former vice president also denied disparaging youth in leadership position, noting that he told an emir that God endows leadership. He said: “You can have a young thirty years old man and he will do better than an old man. So, leadership is an endowed attribute of God. We should try to look for such a person who has been endowed.”

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