Rising from a meeting, Northern Leaders under the aegis of ” League of Northern Democrats” and the leadership of former Kano state Governor, Sen. Ibrahim Shekarau as Chairman and Dr. Umar Ardo, the convener has resolved to join the Sen. David Mark led Coalition, ahead 2027 election.
COMMUNIQUE OF THE MEETING OF THE LEAGUE OF NORTHERN DEMOCRATS HELD AT NICON LUXURY HOTEL ABUJA THURSDAY, 22 MAY, 2025
The League of Northern Democrats held a meeting chaired by its chairman, Sen. Ibrahim Shekarau, with 147 members attending. After intensive discussions the following resolutions were adopted:-
1. We approved our constitution and minutes of previous meetings and directed the legal adviser to conclude the process of the registration of LND as an association
2. We approved the leadership of the LND as attached;
3. We resolved to support the National Opposition Coalition Group chaired by Sen. President David Mark in driving the transitional politics towards the 2027 general elections;
4. We resolved to contribute in the dialogue on either registering a new political party or fuse into an existing one;
5. We resolved that our first option is to register a new party in order to accommodate many independent members of the larger established political parties who currently feel reluctant to move into a smaller party but who are willing to move out to form a new party;
6. In the alternative, to fuse into an existing party as a primary and necessary alternative;
7. We resolve to coordinate a meeting of a larger various northern groups as agreed a few weeks ago in the ACF meeting in Kaduna to solidify northern positions;
8. We resolve to mobilize Northern Nigerians to pressure the government, particularly the NASS leadership, to uphold the provisions of the Constitution which they swore to do;
9. To this end, we resolve to mobilize Nigerians to a civil resistance against the leaderships of NASS to force them to declare the seats of all the legislators in Delta and Kebbi states who cross carpeted to other political parties as stipulated by Sections of the constitution; and
10. We resolved to engage the 19 Northern governors on their seeming inertia to the terrible situation in the North – endemic poverty, state of destitution of our people, insecurity, unemployment, and the appalling economic crisis in the region, which we concluded is as a result of poor governance at the state and local government levels.
Signed:
Sen. Ibrahim Shekarau (Chairman)
Dr. Umar Ardo (Convener)
