He argued that power should not return to the North after the current cycle, as Nigeria operates on a rotational system between the North and South. According to him, after eight years of Northern leadership, the South should follow with its own eight years. He highlighted the importance of cooperation, understanding, and concession in Nigeria’s political history, asserting that the nation’s unity was not achieved through coercion.
He said in an interview with Arise TV from 5:43, ‘I am in this system and I understand this system. In 2027, power cannot return to the north yet, that’s not how we do it. We rotate between the North and the South; the North does 8 years, at the end of which the South does 8 years. I’m not saying that Tinubu must be president in 2027, but it’s not going to be a Northerner.
What we have seen in recent times is that the simplest thing that some of our young people in the North consider to be irritable, then the question is that okay, we will speak in 2027. This country was not brought together by coercion but by cooperation, understanding, and concession on all fronts. There were times when you know the North did not have the requisite people to fill positions at the national level; there was a concession that the North must be accommodated.”
