Igbo:
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Jackson Ojo, has advised the South to forget their dream of producing the President of Nigeria in 2023, saying at the expiration of his tenure, President Muhammadu Buhari would handover to another northerner.

Ojo stated this yesterday in Abuja in a chat with our correspondents. The APC chieftain while counselling the South to build a common front ahead of the next election cycle noted that South lacks the capacity to politically engage the North in a battle of supremacy.


In his words, politicians of South-West extraction currently agitating to replace President Buhari in 2023 lack the visibility and national acceptance to make good their dream saying, “who is there in the South that has the national clout? There are some people in the South-West that are making noise today, wanting to be President.

“The truth is that they cannot be President. That is it! Mark my word! APC Presidential candidate in 2023 will emerge from the north. The South-West will be given the Vice Presidential slot. And if the PDP takes its candidate from the South, then they have given the opportunity to the APC to win again. The south does not have the political capacity to fight the North.”

Justifying his reason for rating the south so poorly, Ojo, who doubled as Coordinator, Yoruba Youth Alliance added that the north has since left the south behind in terms of togetherness and unity; factors he claimed would determine who gets the Presidency in 2023


He continued: “The people of the South are agitating to be President of Nigeria in 2023. Is it by mere verbal expression? The North has 19 states including the FCT. The South has 17. There is no political synergy between the South-East, South-South and South-West. Each of them is standing independently as a pillar that cannot be moved but when you go up north, you will always get the traditional bloc vote because there is a unifying factor among them.

“Religion can unify them and they have leaders that can unify them. In the north, you have the Northern Governors Forum, the Northern Senators Forum and all that. Do we have these unifiers in the South? South-South is standing on its own, same with South-East and South-West. In the South, there is a multi-dimensional dichotomy, politically that is. Such a dichotomy can never be found in the North.

“Let us not deceive ourselves. What is the voting capacity of the North? The voting capacity of the South-South and the South-East cannot withstand the voting capacity of Kano, Katsina and Kebbi states.”

There are agitation by Southern politicians, particularly from the South-West and South-East for the zoning of the APC Presidential ticket at the expiration of President Buhari’s second tenure in 2023, with the likes of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Tunde Bakare being seen as likely aspirants.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/11/2023-buharill-handover-to-northerner-%e2%80%95-apc-chieftain/

Awol1:
APC will be in a quagmire in 2023 and I'm waiting to see how they navigate through it.

The SW bloc of Tinubu and co, cannot accept to take VP slot again. They'd claim they weren't born to perpetually play second fiddle. And rightfully so.

Now, if the northern bloc choose to discard SW and go for SS or SE, they will lose the SW whilst not being sure of SS/SE support.

If APC will survive beyond 2023, their ticket should traditional go to SW and vice from north.

Let PDP represent our darling Atiku/Obi or Umahi ( for d sake of peace) and let's do some popularity test once again.

Kapilta:
Coming from a flat.head. Lmao.
Vanguard the aba-owerri express media company presided over by the orangutan with nose as wide as Lagos-Ibadan expressway.

LabDNA:


Delusions, even Ojo your yoruba brother have realised that APC will shoot itself on the foot if SW given the ticket.

They can't get votes from the SESS region, no Southern president have won election by losing majority of the southern votes.

SonofDevil:
blablablabla you think Nigeria political terrain is a one way traffic.Apc got 25% in all south south states compare to performance in South East region.
Apc have abandoned south east region ,now focusing on niger Delta region which has more Economic and political value.
Apc got more senators,house reps and Governor's in niger Delta than south east.
Currently apc only have 3 senator in whole of south east with no single governor.

SonofDevil:
blablablabla you think Nigeria political terrain is a one way traffic.Apc got 25% in all south south states compare to performance in South East region.
Apc have abandoned south east region ,now focusing on niger Delta region which has more Economic and political value.
Apc got more senators,house reps and Governor's in niger Delta than south east.
Currently apc only have 3 senator in whole of south east with no single governor.

If you think will ever get bloc votes again in south south it means u re politically naive.

Apc margin of loss in 2015 vs 2019 in niger Delta shows the party have made a huge significant success in penetrating with recent state won in niger Delta region. Pdp is no longer invisible in South South.

Ezeama400:


You were quick to give a ridiculous analysis about how APC is penetrating SS Geo zone, but quick to ignore how PDP is taking over the North unlike what was obtainable in 2015.
Zamfara
Sokoto
Adamawa
Benue
Taraba.


You guys should be more worried about the plans of the northerners because the way they see power, they are likely to pull out of APC and go back to CPC, then look for another people to merge with if they don't get APC ticket.. They don't reason like you
They attach too much emotions on power... They don't care about party affairs, they are only after their region.
Don't cry and beg for whom to hug when core northers do what they they are known for in politics.
Awo and Abiola would tell you better

Awo received more commendation from northerners but we all saw how he ended up.

LabDNA:


Delusions, even Ojo your yoruba brother have realised that APC will shoot itself on the foot if SW is given the ticket.

They can't get votes from the SESS region, no Southern president have won election by losing majority of the southern votes.

The only prayer PDP is saying right now is that APC should throw away political pragmatism and settle for emotions by giving SW the ticket. It will be a landslide victory for PDP in both North &South.

Ezeama400:


You were quick to give a ridiculous analysis about how APC is penetrating SS Geo zone, but quick to ignore how PDP is taking over the North unlike what was obtainable in 2015.
Zamfara
Sokoto
Adamawa
Benue
Taraba.


You guys should be more worried about the plans of the northerners because the way they see power, they are likely to pull out of APC and go back to CPC, then look for another people to merge with if they don't get APC ticket.. They don't reason like you
They attach too much emotions on power... They don't care about party affairs, they are only after their region.
Don't cry and beg for whom to hug when core northers do what they they are known for in politics.
Awo and Abiola would tell you better

Awo received more commendation from northerners but we all saw how he ended up.

SonofDevil:
blablablabla

Apc have never produced governor in taraba.seems u don't even know what u re saying

Zamfara was a gift from apc senator marafa through court case .the result of the ballot exercise ,APC battered pdp in the election.p dp didn't win a single sit in the state Assembly or national Assembly till supreme Court rule in favour senator marafa that approach the court for cancellation of kyari faction list of candidates.

Benue and sokoto gov defected to pdp with Apc mandate .Benue gov rigged convincingly while sokoto gov escape loosing with 400 votes.

Adamawa too was a narrow win for bindow , the incumbent was dealt with by the party chieftains like , ex military gov of lagos buba Marwa, ex efcc chairman Ribadu, SGF e.t.c

Pdp have never won core north in presidential since 1999 check results it is available.

CPC pulling out of Apc like seriously u analyse politics like a toddler.
Assuming if CPC pull out of Apc what do that stand to gain ?