2027 presidency: Nigerians will determine, Atiku replies Akume

The 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, acknowledged that there’s a six-year distinction within the size of time the North and South have held the presidency.

Atiku made this comment on Monday in response to the decision by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator George Akume, urging Northerners within the presidency to attend till 2031.

The previous Vice President, in an announcement by his media adviser, Paul Ibe, mentioned that by 2027, the South could have had 17 years of management.

Recall that, whereas showing on a TVC program, Akume urged northern political leaders getting ready to run for the 2027 presidency to place apart their ambitions and wait till 2031, when President Bola Tinubu would have completed his second time period.

Akume acknowledged, “President Tinubu, as a Southerner, ought to be allowed to have a second time period, that means that these eyeing the presidency from the North in 2027 ought to look past that yr by ready until 2031.

“If it’s the will of God for Alhaji Atiku Abubakar to be President of Nigeria, even on the age of 90 years, he can get it. However he and different Northerners eyeing the workplace now ought to look past 2027.”

Reacting, Atiku acknowledged, “The place, then, does true fairness and equity reside? By the yr 2027, the South could have loved 17 years of management—eight years beneath Obasanjo, 5 years beneath Jonathan, and 4 years beneath Tinubu—whereas the North could have skilled solely 11 years, with Yar’Adua serving three and Buhari eight.

“This leads to a disparity of six years between the North and South, casting a shadow over the steadiness of energy.

“In any case, the facility to elect and vote out their authorities lies firmly with the Nigerian folks, entrusted to them upon the federal government’s means to show itself worthy of the folks’s poll. However has the Tinubu authorities demonstrated that it deserves to be re-elected? The reply, alas, is as clear because the heavens themselves—God forbid.”