Chief Osita Okechukwu, a leader of the All Progressives Congress in Enugu State, has called on Nigerians, particularly Northern leaders, to let President Bola Tinubu complete his second term.
During the flagging off of the APC e-registration in Eke Ward in Udi Local Government Area of Enugu State on Saturday, Okechukwu, a former Director General of the Voice of Nigeria, made the announcement.
He pointed out that Atiku, the former vice president, would likely win the African Democratic Congress primaries and advised him to follow Nigeria’s zoning and rotating presidential system.
Speaking upon his registration, the party chief urged Abubakar to let Tinubu finish his second term before the North took over.
“By the time Tinubu finishes in 2031, any southerner who is coming for president, we will not allow the person because it will be the turn of the North,” he said.
He clarified that in 1999, when he was appointed Vice President by President Olusegun Obasanjo, Abubakar profited from the same cycle.
“If not for good faith, restraint, and self-censorship, Alhaji Abubakar Rimi, Umaru Shinkafi, Adamu Ciroma, and Bukola Saraki were all qualified by any standard but conceded power to the south.
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“This was how Abubakar became vice president under Obasanjo,” he said
He said that rotation originated in Switzerland in 1848 and was founded on the sincere belief that people should prioritise national unity, equity, and a sense of belonging to all groups.
“Other countries practiced it in one variant or the other, but for us, after the military coup and the long reign of the military regime in Nigeria, some Nigerian patriots came together.
“Their conclusion was that the only place to shift power was the South, and also to please Abiola and his followers, was to do a rotation convention whereby it would be the turn of the South, after which, the North would take over.
“And that was exactly what happened because from 1999 to 2007, the South finished and handed over to a northerner.
“So to sustain economic reforms of Tinubu, Nigeria’s democracy and peace of the country, the south under Tinubu should be allowed to complete their eight years in power,” he stressed.
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