2023: Group Calls For Southern Christian President

Nigeria Equity Group, a political interest group, has announced that it is working on a consensus agreement to ensure that the country’s next president is a Christian from the south.

Fairness and justice, according to the party, demand that the rest of the country hand over the presidency in 2023 to a competent Christian from the south.

NEG said that when former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s term ended, he handed over to Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, a Northern Muslim, to continue the presidency.

According to the report, after Yar’Adua’s untimely and unfortunate death, Goodluck Jonathan, a Southern Christian, took over as President, later handing over power to another Muslim, President Muhammadu Buhari.

The NEG’s Convener, Emeka Nwosu, told a press conference in Abuja on Tuesday that the country had suffered from increased mutual distrust and discontent in the polity in recent years.

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“Our organization’s position is that the next president of our country should be a Christian for the sake of equity and fairness,” he said.

We believe that the model that the country has followed since returning to democratic rule in 1999, in which the presidency is rotated between the two major faiths of Christianity and Islam, as well as between the two main regions of North and South, is a good one.

Nwosu, who spoke to journalists alongside the group’s Secretary, Alhaji Mubarak Mohammed, said their goal was to persuade various interest groups and individuals who have begun preparing for the next election cycle to embrace the cause of inclusiveness and fairness as a means of restoring peace, stability, and unity in the country to see the importance of embracing the cause of inclusiveness and fairness as a means of restoring peace, stability, and unity in the country.

“If we do not carefully and wisely manage the journey towards 2023, the visible cracks of our country would get worse, and Nigeria may not survive the next round of crises that would emerge as a result.

“We have observed that in the last six years, Nigeria has faced a high and intolerable level of disunity as inter and intra-ethnic crises have increased ten-fold,” he said.

He said NEG was working on acalculation that there’s a near-zero chance of a Christian emerging as President when power again shifts to the North as the northern population is overwhelmingly Islamic.

“We believe that it is essential that after the tenure of President Buhari, the next president should be a Southern Christian, in order for us to maintain this balance and not to further aggravate the ethno-religious issues that have bedeviled our country lately. We need to heal and not rupture further,” he said.

Nwosu added that the group will mobilize patriotic Nigerians against any political party that goes against this template and does not lead its presidential ticket with a Christian candidate.

He said the organization in partnership with other similar groups “will mobilize all fair-minded Nigerians in every nook and cranny of this country, to vote against such a political party”.