{"id":64109,"date":"2022-05-02T15:22:07","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T14:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/2023-presidency-power-must-return-to-south-ohanaeze-fires-back-at-northern-elders"},"modified":"2022-05-02T16:32:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T15:32:00","slug":"2023-presidency-power-must-return-to-south-ohanaeze-fires-back-at-northern-elders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-presidency-power-must-return-to-south-ohanaeze-fires-back-at-northern-elders","title":{"rendered":"2023 Presidency: Power must return to South \u2013 Ohanaeze fires back at Northern elders"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Ahead of the 2023 Presidential election, the Igbo apex socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has maintained that the Presidency must return to the Southern part of the country.<\/p>\n

Ohanaeze said the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, are against zoning of the Presidency because it was the turn of the Southeast to produce Nigeria\u2019s President.<\/p>\n

The body was reacting to the position of the NEF on the zoning of the Presidency.<\/p>\n

NEF recently frowned against the zoning of the 2023 Presidency.<\/p>\n

Reacting, Ohanaeze in a statement titled: \u201cThe zoning shenanigans in Nigeria\u201d, signed by its spokesman, Dr Alex Ogbonnia, said NEF was trying to destroy what balances Nigeria instead of seeking solutions to the country\u2019s problems.<\/p>\n

The body recalled how power rotated from former President Olusegun Obasanjo (Southwest) to Musa Yar\u2019Adua (North) to Goodluck Jonathan (Southsouth) and to President Muhammadu Buhari (North).<\/p>\n

Ohanaeze disclosed that the issue of rotation of power was conceived in 1994 by some Nigerian patriots to ensure equity and inclusiveness of all parts of the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was also agreed that political offices will be zoned or distributed among the zones in such a way that every zone will have a sense of belonging. Furthermore, the Presidency in Nigeria will rotate among the zones to promote peace, unity and progress.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe NEF is aware that Nigeria has religiously followed the rotation and zoning principle since 1999 with Chief Olusegun Obasanjo (South West) as the elected President of Nigeria. Obasanjo, in keeping with the rotation principle, handed over to former President Umaru Yar\u2019Adua ( North West) in 2007.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the death of Yar\u2019Adua, a Southerner, specifically the South-South, in the person of Dr Goodluck Jonathan was elected as President. Jonathan also handed over to a Northerner, President Muhammadu Buhari, whose second tenure of four years will end in 2023. By the rotation and zoning principle that has been in operation in Nigeria, it is only fair that the Presidency be zoned to the South, specifically the South-East region,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Some stakeholders have been clamouring that the Southeast should produce Nigeria\u2019s next President in 2023.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Nigeria. Ahead of the 2023 Presidential election, the Igbo apex socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has maintained that the Presidency must return to the Southern part of the country. Ohanaeze said the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, are against zoning of the Presidency because it was the turn of the Southeast to produce Nigeria\u2019s President. 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