INDICATIONS emerged weekend that former President Olusegun Obasanjo and some retired army generals are in support of a power shift to the South in 2023.

It was also gathered that the former president, Obasanjo and former generals are disposed to having any of President of the African Development Bank, Mr Akinwumi Adesina; former governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi and a former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Professor Kingsley Mohgalu, emerge as President Muhammadu Buhari’s successor.

A close ally of the former president, Obasanjo and some of the generals, who spoke with Vanguard in confidence, however, ruled out the possibility of supporting former Vice President Atiku Abubakar in the 2023 election.

Besides, the source said former National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega, is being favoured to emerge as vice president.

The source said: “He (Obasanjo) supports power shift to the South. The people he has indicated an interest in general and not specifically are Akinwumi Adesina, Peter Obi and Kingsley Moghalu.

”Then in the North, he likes Attahiru Jega (former INEC chairman) to be the running mate. He is not supporting Atiku at all. He supports power-shift.”

Emdes:
Call it South East. Not south. Enough of all these confusion dudes

uthlaw:
This south east get problem,are you telling us all Nigerians must vote for south east, you people should get your ticket from your lovely party...nobody is supporting any south east president, present your candidate,whoever is willing would vote for the candidate, stop telling us rubbish this,rubbish that!

uthlaw:
This south east get problem,are you telling us all Nigerians must vote for south east, you people should get your ticket from your lovely party...nobody is supporting any south east president, present your candidate,whoever is willing would vote for the candidate, stop telling us rubbish this,rubbish that!

mrvitalis:

But u are saying Nigerians must vote southern president right ? ... hypocrisy

uthlaw:
I didn't say that,read well alaye...those south east are just making noise like presidency is a monarchy system of ruling.... The best for Nigeria is separation, everyone should rule is territory!

uthlaw:
This south east get problem,are you telling us all Nigerians must vote for south east, you people should get your ticket from your lovely party...nobody is supporting any south east president, present your candidate,whoever is willing would vote for the candidate, stop telling us rubbish this,rubbish that!

edmaraja:

You are the ones that have a problem. The south east is only advocating for fairness and equity. If anything, it's you tinubu urchins that are talking rubbish and no one is going to support you and your foolish candidate

mrvitalis:

But u want it zoned to south ?

shadeze:

Shut up, the south east have a right to agitate for the presidency to be zoned to them and that's what anyone who believes in fairness should be advocating for

uthlaw:
fairness and equity,why fairness now,when you always vote for just one party!

edmaraja:

Did Yorubas vote for PDP when other regions supported Obasanjo to be president twice? Now you want to start turning reasoning upside down just because of the selfish and greedy ambition of tinubu. There are Igbos in every political party in Nigeria, many of the founding fathers of the APC like Ogbonnaya Onu, Okorocha, Ngige, Amaechi e.t.c are from the south east or of igbo origin in the south south in the case of Amaechi so all this argument about Igbos not being involved in APC is complete rubbish. A faction of APGA was one of the legacy parties that founded APC so why should you tinubu urchins be telling us that it's only in PDP that Igbos have a right to contest?

uthlaw:
PDP will zoned it there,that is the party you always vote for!