South sustains clamour for Presidency in 2023.
– Awotula Temidayo.
Regardless of the visible bias exhibited by the Northern holygachy against zoning, stakeholders from the Southern part of Nigeria have continued to sustain their demand for a President from the Southern region of Nigeria come 2023. The loud decibel of noise about 2023, which is still two years away is even now much louder if not louder than the worsening insecurity challenge ravaging the country.
It is on record that prominent political juggernauts from the North such as Governors Nasir El Rufai, Babagana Zulum , Ganduje Abdullahi , to mention but a few, have given tacit support in the past time to this growing agitation; reverse though has become the case now. It’s becoming obvious by the day that pockets of dissenting voices to this Southern agitation are springing up across the North.
Politicians from the South East in particular and Ohaneze Ndigbo have continued to canvas for the return of the Presidency to the East , claiming that only the Eastern part of the country that have yet to produce the President.
The Ndigbos are claiming that if the Nigerian state is committed to cohesion and sustained unity of the Nigerian project, the 2023 election should not just be zoned to the South but it should be specifically contested solely among the Eastern candidates who are not just qualifed but are more than ever before prepared to preside over the affairs of the nation and drive her wheels away from the precipice to which the nation steadily tilts towards.
