The fact that something has become a tradition does not justify it as being right. Tribalism is one of the cancer that has eaten deep into our nation even to the extent that we civilize it and we live with it daily as a norm, even promoted by our so called elites and leaders. It is time to set a standard for a NEW GENERATION POLITICS as we start probing some of this wrong foundations.
We pride ourselves in promoting sarcastic traditions and we call it a way of unifying Nigeria even at the expense of the freedom of the masses. The tradition of zoning political leadership in our nation is a civilized form of tribalism and it has eaten deep to the point that even when the supposed zone so to say who is to produce leaders do not give us a worthy and integrity proven leaders, but all in the name of tradition, we sell our birthright in the claim of upholding a tradition in the name of unifying the nation and in the process, because we did not vote rightly, when things goes wrong, we blame the leadership not knowing we as a people laid the wrong foundation and if the foundation be destroyed, what can the righteous do? And so, we see an Ogbomosho man fighting an Ibadan man all in the name of zoning yet, they are of the same descendants, we see a deacon fighting another deacon all in the name of he is my tribal man yet they claim they drink from the same baptism.
We claim the rotation of leadership is in a bit to unify the nation and yet when a Hausa man is ruling, the so to say Biafran’s raises agitations and the militants disturb the peace of the nation when a Yoruba man rules and now we begin to hear things like a particular zone has not produced president in a long time, we too must produce a president this time.
The question is,
 What are we fighting for?
• Good governance or upholding a tradition?
 Do we really know what we want as a people?
 what is our definition of unity as a nation?
 And as far as the rotation is concern, how has it helped to unify Nigeria?

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