2023 Presidency: Adebanjo, Yakassai, Clark, others kicks off campaign for power shift
Some notable and highly respected elder statesmen across the country have kicked off a campaign for a power shift to the South in the forthcoming 2023 presidential election.
Findings by Obinwannem News revealed that those behind this campaign include; Alhaji Tanko Yakassai, Chief Edwin Clark, Chief Ayo Adebanjo; a chieftain of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Kano State, Brig-General Idris Dambazzau, retd, National Chairman of the Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, Air Commodore Idongesit Nkanga, retd. Second Republic lawmaker, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, Chief Bode George, Chief Ebenezer Babatope, Chief Supo Shonibare and Senator Femi Okorounmu.
Further reports state that most of the leaders in the South-South contended that the Presidency should be shifted to the South-East which, according to them, had never tasted the office.
Reacting over this Alhaji Yakassai in a statement noted that zoning of the Presidency to any particular region of the country was at the discretion of political parties, stressing that the South should be given the opportunity to produce the next President since the North would have concluded its eight years run in President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.
His words: “Rotation or zoning is not sacrosanct; it is a party’s arrangement among members because it is not in the Nigerian constitution. So it is up to members of the party to decide where the Presidential candidate should come from.
“The APC produced Buhari for the second term and by the end of the term, he has completed eight years. So it is ideal for the party to respect and stick to the zoning arrangement on ground and look for a presidential candidate from the South. “The PDP fielded Atiku Abubakar as its presidential candidate in 2019. So, I don’t know what will happen to the PDP and other parties.”
Nwada Ugochinyere Onyechere reporting, Obinwannem News
