Amid controversy over the propriety of rotational presidency between North and South, Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai has said no northerner should contest for the presidency in 2023.

El-Rufai expressed his personal opinion on what has become a divisive subject, dismissing insinuations that he was interested in the race.
The governor, who made the statement in an interview with BBC Hausa Service, had also made a similar remark last year.

His latest statement came on the heels of Alhaji Mamman Daura’s assertion that merit should determine who becomes President instead of zoning.

Daura, President Muhammadu Buhari’s nephew aired his views also in an interview with BBC Hausa Service.

El-Rufai said: “In Nigerian politics, there is a system of rotation, in which everyone agrees that if the north rules for eight years, the south will rule for eight years. That is why I came out and said that after President Buhari has been in office for eight years, no northerner should run for office. Let the Southerners also have eight years.

If you look at how I am, I don’t take anyone to work with me for the zone he came from. The eligibility I look at is if who is entrusted to the public will hold it properly. It has been said that I have loved the presidency since I was a minister in the FCT. This is nonsense. I do not want the Nigerian presidency. God gives power, whether you like it or not, if he wants it, He will give it to you, but I have never sought the presidency of Nigeria, no one can say I have ever sought it”.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/08/zoning-el-rufai-backs-south-says-no-northerner-should-run-in-2023/

Our professor is ready.

Any Notaner wey contest go suffer for 600 years

Everybody wey done loot this country go suffer for 600 years

Minister of Transport is ready

We don't want stooges who will be paying dues to their ogas at the top

Genoa:
Our professor is ready.

Today Tinubu for presidency
Tomorrow Osinbajo for presidency

Yorubas are getting confused already

SpatialKing:


Today Tinubu for presidency
Tomorrow Osinbajo for presidency

Yorubas are getting confused already

What is this one saying?

That's how it should be.

8 years North and 8 years South until we use our heads correctly and restructure to optimise everyone's potential.

Osinbajo next Nigeria president come 2023. Non negotiable.

El rufai cannot be trusted, he play to the galary alot.

SpatialKing:


Today Tinubu for presidency
Tomorrow Osinbajo for presidency

Yorubas are getting confused already

How do you? You had better face your problem

It's better South South and South East support the only true man who can move Nigeria up and the person is VP osinbajo

Osinbajo is the rightful man for the job

okefrancis:
It's better South South and South East support the only true man who can move Nigeria up and the person is VP osinbajo

you will be shocked don't worry

SpatialKing:


Today Tinubu for presidency
Tomorrow Osinbajo for presidency

Yorubas are getting confused already

What is wrong with Tinubu and Osinabajo contesting for president? Are they not qualified to contest? What has the Yoruba nation got to do with the presidential ambition of the two equally qualified leaders?

I can't say am not surprised... But does that mean elrufai is backing tinubu

Become a VP and plan the impeachment of your Presido

Heheheh..

Only reasonable thing he's done all his life.

Even a broken clock is right twice a day

Damnnnnn niggarrr
Isoright

TheZooHasFalln:
What a huge sacrifice just to uphold the fraudulent unity who says IPOB is not Powerful? If you can ignore sentiments and face the facts, you will agree that the North before now were boasting of continuing with power for more years, but the latest unquenchable heat from IPOB has made them to succumb to our resoluteness. But the unfortunate thing is that they came very late, there's no going back on our determination for the ultimate restoration of Biafra, the blood of IPOB members they wasted can not be wished away for useless presidency, like the one who shot on 20th January 2016 in Rumola PH during the IPOB solidarity match for the inauguration of President Donald Trump, he shaded tears while we held him at the point of his death, he asked us never to allow his death be in vain, that we must make sure that we restore Biafra as that's the only way he can rest in peace, and we promised him never to stop at anything than total restoration of Biafra, and till tomorrow nothing can quench the zeal in us. Biafra or Nothing

see this one

Na so

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Ok

Seconded!

SOUTH EAST: IS IT NOT TOO LATE?

I have read the recent transmissions by Senator Bukola Saraki directed at my Igbo tribe. I have deliberately kept mum on this as I had earlier resolved to speak less on Igbos as regards the 2019 Elections and 2023 Presidency having said quite a bit. 

However seeing as some of my brethren have swallowed the cheap bait, I will chip this in just to keep the reality before us, at least for posterity sake. Truth is bitter but it's still the best medicine. 

My people say; 'He who does not remember where the rain started beating him, will not remember where it stopped'. 

REWIND TO 2014. 
A new National Party was being conceived. Political Parties, political players and Regions were being wooed to the new alliance. 

'We' Igbos (read South East) vehemently refused to touch it even with a long pole. We packaged, sold to ourselves and bought the baseless propaganda that it was an Islamic alliance that would birth an "Islamic" and "Hausa" Party. Simply because those our brethren heavily invested in the PDP at the time were afraid of losing their vested selfish interests.
Till today I'm still trying to fathom the basis for that wicked and twisted deceit especially as many of those Igbo elites who sold that dummy have since ported to the same APC.

We failed to even identify with that new Alliance. Hence the Party, APC was birthed without any remarkable input from us or presence. The few amongst us who aligned were called all kinds of names and abused to high heavens by us even when they were proven right afterall.

Thus the few Igbos who were part of it were at best fringe players as they didn't have the required clout to make serious demands and do the necessary political wheeling and dealing required in Politics to strike the hard bargains since politics is all about interests and numbers. They were even suspect, so much so that it was only their personal political sagacity that gave them whatever they got.

That Party went on to win the Presidential Election which in truth, most of us never believed it could or would, because of our half baked permutations and poor understanding of Nigerian politics. But it did. 

Curiously we turned up at the fore front of telling this same Party how it should share it's 'spoils of war'. We became hypocritical moral champions with an over bloated sense of entitlement. Who does that, in all political reality and practicality? But we did, even while vehemently and vociferously still refusing to shift our position, style and rhethoric.

We dug in. Supported every bad thing and person against the Party, the elected President and the Administration while denying any and every good done to and for our Region.

Fast forward to where we are today. Almost four years after the 2015 misadventure, we have stayed put at 2015, refusing to move forward, refusing to shift grounds, refusing to play pragmatic politics, telling ourselves the same lies we cooked and bought in 2015 and some more. 

Now after election, we have started again saying "APC cannot give Presidency to Igbos in 2023". "Buhari cannot hand over to an Igbo man because Buhari hates Igbos". "APC is deceiving you", bla bla bla.

Of course. We will believe Saraki, who has only but a fanthom dream of becoming President and whose only known record is selfishness but we can't believe Buhari who's already President and who has a record of voluntarily picking two great Igbo sons as running mates in the past? Chukwu aju.

It is interesting and vital to note here that the PDP which many of us still proudly support and adore was in power for 16 solid years and in those years there were 4 Presidential Inaugurations and on none of those was an Igbo man found worthy by the PDP of even Vice Presidency and we are still bold to say it is the APC that has not even finished one tenure that doesn't want to give power to Igbos. Odi nma. 

NOW; Seriously, let's be sincere. As things stand today politically, why would the APC even hand power to us Igbos in 2023? 
On what grounds? 
On what records?
On what politics?
Is power given to anyone? 
Is it an appeasement or a gift? 

The APC is a political party. The main focus of a political Party is to hold power and keep it to enable it deliver on its agenda. So if the APC reads that the SE does not want the Presidency or does not have the capacity to help them win and keep power, they will stick with the regions that can and work with individuals who are interested. 

Make no mistake, I have always said, I do not blame us Igbos for the decision majority of us took in 2015. It's our right. But continuing to pretend that it was other regions, Buhari or the APC that made us do what we did then or remain where we are today is purely self deceit and I refuse to play that ostrich game. 

As far back as 2014, I and many others made that argument that Igbo Presidency was very feasible in 2023, ONLY under under the APC, ONLY IF we did a couple of things right politically. I personally continued to speak loudly on that even after the 2015 elections until when I realized that we were not ready to play the politics that was required and now I dare say it may be too late. Or is it not? Time will tell.

For now, we can continue to tell ourselves that we cannot hold the Presidency of Nigeria. We heard and read many of our brethren go from PDP to Biafra/seccesion (read IPOB) to Referendum to "Igbos do not need Presidency but Restructuring" etc forgetting that all that didn't lie squarely with us alone. We think other regions are not reading our body language?

We really don't care what Saraki writes or says because they've all come to realize that it's very easy to play us like a flute. So like Saraki, like Fani Kayode, like Fayose, like Atiku, even Jonah Jang of all people, they keep playing us.

We have learnt not to bother ourself anymore to avoid unnecessary arguements with nonentities
As some of us have said, it's good governance we want, even if only one village will be producing the Presidents. So be it..

Ka Chineke mezie okwu.

J.I

omoalaro:
Wow, this surely is one of the best written opinion I have read this year.

Only a sensible person like you can ever see sense in this.
Glad to see we still have intelligent people with a sound mind like you around.
God bless you.
God bless Nigeria.

Who is deceiving who in this country, we all know that if we still have the crop of politicians of today, Nigeria can't progress.

Either North, East, South and West, all Nigerians politicians are only going for their personal gain.


The only way this country can move forward is when it is finally sold to China and imprisoned all the current politician in underground cell.

I don talk my own, none of these politicians mean well for Nigeria and Nigerians.

If you have thr opportunity go and give your children the best life in a saner country

Story! Story!!

Lol... This will pain our SE brothers. Only the comments against the South 2023 ambition give them orgasm so that they can spite Tinubu and mock the Yorubas. lol

I know some of them will still find a way to explain how and why Elrufai comment is against Tinubu.

SpatialKing:


Today Tinubu for presidency
Tomorrow Osinbajo for presidency

Yorubas are getting confused already

Don't follow commoners and ordinary people's view. When the time to pick candidate comes, the elite and political class will decide. Not the rank and file, ordinary citizens.