2023 Presidency: Groups Advocates For Southern President

Following claims by the Prof. Ango Abdullahi-led Northern Elders’ Forum that the north should retain the Presidency in 2023,the coalition of Groups from 19 northern states and Abuja, have advocated for a Southern President in 2023.

The former vice-chancellor of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, had said at a book launch in December 2019 that the rotation of the Presidency between the North and the South was the making of political parties to win elections.

He had said that the arrangement was encouraged by the Peoples Democratic Party which later jettisoned it under the ex-President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration.

Abdullahi said: “Go and check the constitution. There is no place it is written that the president of Nigeria will be rotated according to local governments, states or geopolitical zones.

“In fact, geopolitical zone does not exist in the constitution. Go and check“.

But on Wednesday, the coalition of youth groups, under the auspices of the Arewa Youth Assembly, urged their kinsmen to be magnanimous enough and give the southern part of the country, especially the South-South geopolitical zone, the chance to produce the Presidency in 2023.

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They said in addition to shifting the 2023 presidency to the South-South, they were ready to support a youthful president within the age bracket of between 40 and 50 years.

The group declared that it was time to say no to recycled politicians in 2023, especially from the region.

The leader of the coalition, Mohammed Danlami, who addressed the press conference held at the Arewa House, Kaduna, said that it would be unfair for the North not to relinquish political power to the South in 2023.