Kassim Afegbua, former commissioner of information in Edo
state, has asked the north to abandon their 2027 presidential aspirations.
Afegbua’s comment came after George Akume, secretary to the
government of the federation (SGF), urged northerners nursing presidential
ambition in 2027 to wait until 2031.
Akume also urged former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar to
keep his presidential ambition on ice until Tinubu 2031.
However, Paul Ibe, Atiku’s media adviser, dismissed Akume’s
remark, saying his comments were attempts to “kidnap the aspirations of his
principal and other northerners”.
Speaking during his appearance on Prime Time, an Arise
Television programme, Afegbua said the north should allow the southern part of
the country to complete its eight years in power.
Afegbua criticised the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for
neglecting its constitutional power rotation guideline.
The former commissioner accused the PDP of abandoning its
principles during the 2023 elections by fielding Abubakar as its presidential
candidate.
“If you recall, one of the reasons I canvassed for a
Southern presidency in 2023 was because Alhaji Atiku Abubakar decided to change
the political narrative of the PDP,” he said.
“Article 7 of its own constitution, Section C, stipulates
that there should be a rotation of power.
“In an effort to railroad the polity into presenting an
Atiku, seeing him as someone who can defeat the APC, they decided to package
him, and since then, the center cannot hold up to now.
“So, when you have that kind of scenario, where a party is
not able to follow the normative order of its own constitution by virtue of its
own provisions, then you have this kind of scenario of trying to push the
political algorithms.
“For me, I don’t think the North should bother to discuss
2027 for power to be ceded to them.
“The South must be made to complete its eight years, then
power would now go to the North.”
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