Elder statesman and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Chief Robert Clarke has said that the South West region is already well positioned to produce President Muhammadu Buhari’s successor in 2023.

He noted that since 1999, presidential power goes to any region where two of the three major tribes of Igbo, Yoruba, and Hausa/Fulani decided to take it to after forming an alliance.

Against that backdrop, Clarke posited that with the current collaboration between the Southwest and President Muhammadu Buhari, presidential power was certain to shift to Yorubaland in 2023.

He said it was unfortunate for the Igbos that they have never had a partnership with either the Hausa or the Yoruba in any election since 2011.

Speaking in an interview with Sun Newspaper, the elder statesman said, “The problem in Nigeria is that the politician has created for themselves a situation where if two of them gather against the third one, they will want political power to be rotating among themselves.

“There are three major tribes. The Igbo, Yoruba and the Hausa. Where two of these major tribes gang up, that is where the power is going.

“In 1999, when the constitution came in, Obasanjo wasn’t sponsored by the Yoruba, even though he was a Yoruba man; the Yoruba rejected him, and sponsored Falae. But the Northerners and the Igbo voted for him; the Yoruba never voted for him and he still won because the Northern Hausa and the Eastern Igbo decided to support him.

“In 2003, Obasanjo came for the second term; again, he was not sponsored by the Yoruba; the Yoruba put up another candidate but still he won.

“In 2007, Yar’Adua was not supported by the Yoruba but the Igbo supported the Northerners and he won.

“In 2011, Jonathan came in, he’s not a Northerner but he was supported by the North and the Igbo, and he won. Having realised that power is between two of these sects, the Yoruba and the Hausa merged in 2015 and they produced Buhari.

“In 2023, if the Igbo don’t find themselves holding onto the Yoruba as a friend or the Hausa as a friend and allow the Hausa and the Yoruba to hold themselves together as in 2015, then that ticket will produce the president. That means the Yoruba will produce the president, the Northerners will produce the vice president because that is the reality of the number. Politics is in number.

“Since the demise of Zik, the Igbo had never had a leader and that is the fault of the Igbo race today. If tomorrow, the Igbo bring out a young vibrant Igbo leader who can now find his way either to go with the Northern Hausa and form alliance or the Yoruba and form alliance, then the hope of an Igbo president in Nigeria will come up.

“But I as Robert Clarke seeing the terrain of politics in Nigerians do not see any hope for an Igbo presidency except they change their attitude in aligning themselves with one of the two tribes. I’m looking at Nigeria consisting of three ethnic groups; between two of these three groups, there the power lies. So, if the Igbo can fix themselves in any of the two alliances, then there’s hope for them.”

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“In 1999, when the constitution came in, Obasanjo wasn’t sponsored by the Yoruba, even though he was a Yoruba man; the Yoruba rejected him, and sponsored Falae. But the Northerners and the Igbo voted for him; the Yoruba never voted for him and he still won because the Northern Hausa and the Eastern Igbo decided to support him.

“In 2003, Obasanjo came for the second term; again, he was not sponsored by the Yoruba; the Yoruba put up another candidate but still he won.

“In 2007, Yar’Adua was not supported by the Yoruba but the Igbo supported the Northerners and he won.

“In 2011, Jonathan came in, he’s not a Northerner but he was supported by the North and the Igbo, and he won." Says clerk

This will tell you how inconsequential their votes are. But but since butterflies have started seeing themselves as birds, they are going back to their normal position when the chips are down.
Is it Tinibu abi Osibanjo that couldn't deliver his pooling unit ?

Meanwhile I heard that Elrufai is also warming up

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Mmhmm

Ok

. I wish it were so but I doubt. Power will definitely return to the North

Yoruba or the south? Where is obasanjo who did 8years from?

Yoruba people
Their politicians just dey enter news
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Nigeria don tire me sef

Northerners staring at this man ND southwesterners like.......ND they are actually gonno believe this man

trash

Let's wait and see. The north will still present a candidate in 2023 with a running mate from the SE. Shame on Tinubu cos he has been fool twice
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I am yoruba and i know the next president wont be yoruba. Awon fulani/ hausa ti lu wa ni jibiti.

Really??

Trying hard to drive Tinubu down our throat...how do I care anyway



Do you have a business? Need sales? Check my signature

Infidel

Make e sha nor be Tinubu!!

Another Thiefnuubu's puppet massaging his ego.

Even the north is re-aligning itself with the Igbos with Zamfara and other Northern states going the way of PDP. The handwriting is on the wall but arselickers are too engrossed in licking Thiefnuubu's hairy anusz to see.

IvarTheTerrible:



Before you spout nonsense, remember Ijaws have called you slaves and NONE of you can confront them

We know slaves and slaves know themselves..
Anybody telling you that second biggest ethnic group in Nigeria is a slave to 7th largest ethnic group is a clown..

Crawl back to your hole , go and beg for food you will use to break your fasting

Is Atiku not a fulani as well as a northerner that the Igbos supported in 2019 election? The Igbos are voting based on party regardless of who is contesting and that is PDP.

A country bereft of love and justice for one another can never prosper. In the next 100 if Nigeria still exist will be worse. Since 1960 we have been going down the drain.

Edwin Clark we know. Who be this one?