{"id":178896,"date":"2025-09-15T09:16:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T08:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/presidency-will-return-to-north-in-2031-after-tinubu"},"modified":"2025-09-15T10:20:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:20:38","slug":"presidency-will-return-to-north-in-2031-after-tinubu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/presidency-will-return-to-north-in-2031-after-tinubu","title":{"rendered":"Presidency Will Return to North in 2031 After Tinubu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Governor Mohammed Bago of Niger State has declared that power will return to the North after President Bola Tinubu\u2019s second tenure.<\/p>\n<p>Bago urged Northerners willing to be Nigeria\u2019s president to wait until 2031.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on TVC, the governor said: \u201cWhen he (President) finishes his eight years, power will come to the North and northerners, who want to contest, can then contest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The governor assured Tinubu of total loyalty and support in Niger State, stressing that there are no dissenting voices.<\/p>\n<p>He insisted that the North and South must maintain the eight years rotation policy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Niger State, there is no dissenting voice. Nigeria is coexisting peacefully because we have decided to embrace a kind of rotation in governance; the North will do eight years, the South will do eight years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe (Tinubu) is just two years in office and you are saying it should come back to the North. How? We had opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, we will continue to support the President,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Governor Mohammed Bago of Niger State has declared that power will return to the North after President Bola Tinubu\u2019s second tenure. Bago urged Northerners willing to be Nigeria\u2019s president to wait until 2031. Speaking on TVC, the governor said: \u201cWhen he (President) finishes his eight years, power will come to the North [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":178895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[8263,254,945],"class_list":["post-178896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-bago","tag-nigeria","tag-tinubu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Presidency Will Return to North in 2031 After Tinubu - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Governor Mohammed Bago of Niger State has declared that power will return to the North after President Bola Tinubu\u2019s sec ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/presidency-will-return-to-north-in-2031-after-tinubu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Presidency Will Return to North in 2031 After Tinubu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Governor Mohammed Bago of Niger State has declared that power will return to the North after President Bola Tinubu\u2019s sec ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/presidency-will-return-to-north-in-2031-after-tinubu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-09-15T08:16:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-15T09:20:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1757915614.701053.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"769\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/presidency-will-return-to-north-in-2031-after-tinubu#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/presidency-will-return-to-north-in-2031-after-tinubu\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Presidency Will Return to North in 2031 After Tinubu\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-09-15T08:16:43+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-09-15T09:20:38+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/presidency-will-return-to-north-in-2031-after-tinubu\"},\"wordCount\":184,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/presidency-will-return-to-north-in-2031-after-tinubu#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1757915614.701053.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Bago\",\"Nigeria\",\"Tinubu\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/presidency-will-return-to-north-in-2031-after-tinubu#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/presidency-will-return-to-north-in-2031-after-tinubu\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/presidency-will-return-to-north-in-2031-after-tinubu\",\"name\":\"Presidency Will Return to North in 2031 After Tinubu - 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