Explosive Interview: “Why 2023 Presidency Must Be Zoned To The North East” – National Chairman, Northern Youth Leaders Forum, Comrade Elliot Afiyo
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But the South-East is claiming that it is their turn since they haven’t produce any president in this political dispensation.
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I don’t really understand how it becomes their turn. The political agreement in PDP is between the North and the South not among geopolitical Zones. It is left for the south to decide which zone to produce the president. Let the three geopolitical zones in the south decide which of them to produce the president in 2023.

Going by the agreement in PDP, Jonathan ought to have served for one term having completed the remaining two years of Yar’adua. But he reneges and was fully backed up by the South-East. The South-East betrayed the North by supporting Jonathan in 2015.

In the APC, there is an existing agreement that the power should not only shift to the South but be shifted to the South-West.

The truth is that the North has learnt their lessons. Forget the fact that there was religious and ethnic differences in the north which was propagated and manifested during the Jonathan era and is clearly being implemented by the Buhari administrations, If it comes to political elections, we always go enmass in one direction because the Southerners always refer to us by our ethnic nationalities names such as Hausa, Fulani, Nupe, Bwatiye, Igala, Igbira or Tiv before elections. But recognized, classified and categorized us as generally as Hausa after elections. An average northern Politician is very mindful of this divisive tendency against the North.

Power is never donated or given free to anyone by God through man. Check the scriptures. All those that were given power by God paid the price. Those that acquired power also paid the price –mostly those that didn’t pay the prize don’t last in power or always misuse or abuse the power. Check the scriptures and history.

Some are arguing that it was donated to the South-West in 1999. The South –West through Abiola paid the price. It wasn’t donated. If I may ask, where were the South Easterners when these agreements were being written by the PDP and APC. We breached the agreement of PDP and we are paying the price now. If we break that of APC, we may pay a higher price by saying bye to Nigeria.

Let me be frank with you. An average Northerner will be more comfortable with an Igbo as President than a rigid Northerner. The reason is very simple. A president of Igbo extraction will be 90% loyal and be willing to play to the gallery and the dictates of the Northern powers than a Northerner who may ignore them. No president of Igbo extraction will summon the courage and boldness to try. Igbos political elites should bridle their tongues, control their utterances and also deal with their selfish interest which they always placed above the collective Igbo interest. What the Igbos need now is genuine and deliberate National integration. To be frank with you, I know about four Igbo Politicians who are lobbying seriously to be considered for the Vice Presidency slot in 2023. They should borrow a leaf from the Yorubas on how to actualize their dreams. They will never get the Presidency through threats. No sensible Nigerian would vote for a Biafran as Nigeria’s president.

this same illiterate mentality that has held Nigeria back for decades and used by the elite to divide us is still being hawked by youths? hmmm