Junaid Mohammed, a member of the Second Republic Parliament, has declared that the North has no intention to surrender power to any other region in 2023.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat makes anybody think that those who are now holding power are going to voluntarily surrender power in 2023? I don\u2019t know. So, zoning and rotation afford us the worst,\u201d the elder statesman said in an interview with the Sun.<\/p>\n
The South-South elders came up recently to state that it is their turn to run the affairs of the country when President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s tenure expires in 2023.<\/p>\n
They pointed out that the region should complete the remaining four years of Goodluck Jonathan presidency, but this Mohammed described as \u201carrant nonsense.\u201d<\/p>\n
The former lawmaker believes that no one would have given the South South a two term, adding that the region wouldn\u2019t have produced a president at all if not for the death of Umaru Yar\u2019Adua.<\/p>\n
He added, \u201cSome corrupt northern politicians in the PDP cut a deal with Jonathan, but the deal backfired; it didn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow they want to go the way the other two regions in the South, that is, by blackmail and agitation, let them go and join them.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is nothing wrong with it; after all the other people have been doing it, why should they be left behind.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf Umaru Yar\u2019Adua didn\u2019t die and he did his eight years, it was absolutely certain that Goodluck Jonathan wouldn\u2019t have been the president.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe became the president by virtue of the fact that he was the Vice President by the time Yar\u2019Adua died.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTo assume that it was favour done to him or to his region was neither here nor there; it is unhistorical.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can never wake the dead; we would have known whom he negotiated with other than the Nigerian Constitution, which provided him to be president in the event of the death or the incapacitation of the president.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Junaid Mohammed, a member of the Second Republic Parliament, has declared that the North has no intention to surrender power to any other region in 2023. \u201cWhat makes anybody think that those who are now holding power are going to voluntarily surrender power in 2023? I don\u2019t know. So, zoning and rotation afford us the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[97,753,65],"class_list":["post-21485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-buhari","tag-junaid-mohammed","tag-pdp"],"yoast_head":"\n