2015: Kwankwaso warns Jonathan to forget Northern states

Ahead of the 2015 presidential election, Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso of Kano State, has declared that President Goodluck Jonathan cannot win any of the 19 northern states in a free, fair and credible contest.
The governor made this assertion via his twitter handle @Rkwankwaso on Monday.
According to the governor, he arrived at the conclusion after undertaking a survey of northern states.
Kwankwaso said, “I have not taken the time to go to the South to study what is happening, but I had time to study the North. In the 19 states, I don’t see any state where under a free and fair election; people will go and vote for the status quo.
“The status quo is not good for anybody because it has failed to provide the basic services to justify why the people voted for this government.
“Being a President is not about personal enjoyment, it also does not mean protecting some and ignoring others.
“Once anyone is elected as a President or a governor, you are no more the chairman of your party, you are no more Edwin Clark, who is the leader of the Ijaw nation, but you are the President for both who voted for you and those who did not, those who like you, and those who do not like you.”
He expressed disappointment that thousands of Nigerians were currently in Niger Republic, Cameroun and Chad as refugees and nobody was even talking about them.
“Today whether you are from the South or the North, Christian or Muslim does not matter; what really matter is how to get peace back,” he added.