A member of the Nationwide Govt Committee of the Peoples Democratic Birthday celebration, Diran Odeyemi, and a chieftain of the Labour Birthday celebration, Anslem Eragbe, have warned former Vice President Atiku Abubakar towards contesting the 2027 presidential election.
Each Odeyemi and Eragbe mentioned the South will have to be allowed to rule for 8 years.
They mentioned the 2027 southern president would possibly now not essentially be President Bola Tinubu.
Eragbe, in an interview with Sunday PUNCH, argued that Atiku will have to now not have contested the 2023 presidential election as it was once the flip of the South to assemble a president.
He mentioned, “Atiku was once now not intended to match the 2023 presidential election as it was once the flip of southern Nigeria. It’s the flip of the South until 2031.
“Being a former Vice President of Nigeria for eight years; Atiku knows Nigeria’s power drill and equation. He should support younger Nigerians to power and provide guidance in 2027.”
Requested if the previous Vice President would breach any legislation if he chooses to run for the society’s best possible place of business in 2027, Eragbe mentioned the PDP stalwart “is entitled to his ambition and aspirations, adding however that “2027 – 2031 is for southern Nigeria.”
In line with him, the 2027 presidency shall stay in southern Nigeria and will have to be zoned to the South-South area.
“It will have to be additional micro-zoned to the (defunct) mid-Western area. I cruel the defunct Bendel, now Edo and Delta states. We predict the key political events to do that for fairness, justice, equity and parity.
“However, should President Bola Tinubu, win the 2027 presidential election and continue till 2031, power shall return to Northern Nigeria,” he added.
The previous President of the Scholar Union Executive of Ahmadu Bello College, Zaria, added that in comparison with alternative geo-political zones within the nation, the South-South had spent the least choice of years at the presidential seat.
“The area that has dominated the least in Nigeria is the South-South with handiest 5 years below Goodluck Jonathan and will have to rule Nigeria once more starting from 2027.
“When put together, the North-Central spent a total of 17 years and 11 months, North-West, 17 years, three months; North-East, 10 years, three months; South-West, 15 years, four months by the time Tinubu finishes his term in May 2027; South East spent five years and nine months and the South-South, the only region to spend five years only on the presidential seat,” he added.
Eragbe known as at the political events to spot credible politicians, irrespective of their monetary situation, to fly their flags for the numerous optional places of work, stressing that 2027 could be every other alternative to proper the wrongs of the day.
Talking with Sunday PUNCH, Odeyemi said that the ex-vice president’s participation within the 2023 presidential election and his perceived ambitions for 2027 had been the reasons of PDP situation.
He charged Atiku to bury his ambition, including that after the previous vp didn’t claim pastime in 2027, the situation within the birthday party could be over.
“The 2023 election was originally supposed to be between southerners, as former President Muhammadu Buhari, a northerner, had just completed eight years in office. However, Atiku insisted on exercising his rights, which is why there is a crisis in the PDP,” he said.