2023: Muslim group wants presidency zoned to North Central

The North Central Muslim Peace Initiative (NCMPI) says a key move to restore peace and boost development is the emergence of the Nigerian president of the North Central extraction in 2023.

NCMPI President, Saleh Mandung Zazzaga, said this on Wednesday at the group’s emergency meeting in Jos, Plateau State, held to address the ethnoreligious crises, farmers-herdsmen’s clashes and other challenges in the zone. 

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He called on groups, religious and private bodies to be meaningfully and uprightly involved in politics so that they could contribute to decisions and policymaking in the country.

NCMPI Coordinator, Kogi State, Sani Muhammed Lokoja, said the group was partnering with non-Muslim groups and socio-cultural associations to boost and peace and advance in the zone and the nation at large.