MuchAdo:


Sure. It's better losing even before the game has begun - going for VP...

kcnwaigbo:

Then do so again and stop blackmailing the North not to contest

kcnwaigbo:

That truly is what there are hoping on but I don't see that happening as Buhari himself is a key northern irredentist

kcnwaigbo:

Was not not the game you played in 2015? We learnt from you

NaijirianKing:
In the North we don't follow political parties, we voted APC, a political newcomer, over the more established PDP. The real issue is, why would the North vote a christian-southern-pastor over a Northern Muslim?

It is not by force to support other regions over your own region. Your region is welcome to field anyone you wish, and your people are welcome to vote anyone you wish. No pressure.

However, the realities on ground are not about emotions and sentiment. It is about bridge building, the North is building bridges to the SE out of fairness and we believe they will do the right thing at the right time.

NaijirianKing:
In the North we don't follow political parties, we voted APC, a political newcomer, over the more established PDP. The real issue is, why would the North vote a christian-southern-pastor over a Northern Muslim?

It is not by force to support other regions over your own region. Your region is welcome to field anyone you wish, and your people are welcome to vote anyone you wish. No pressure.

However, the realities on ground are not about emotions and sentiment. It is about bridge building, the North is building bridges to the SE out of fairness and we believe they will do the right thing at the right time.

AfonjaConehead:


In all fairness it should come from either the SE or SS..
The south west may try if only the candidate is Osinbajo..but I don't know how that will go down well with the people of the SE and SS cos they really feel the SW betrayed them 2014 which is unfortunately true.

If we make the mistake of continuous bickering and the north takes the advantage again,it's a pity cos.

Goke7:


What did the SS and SE give SW that made them feel betrayed. You guys just make spurious sentiments

AfonjaConehead:


In all fairness it should come from either the SE or SS..
The south west may try if only the candidate is Osinbajo..but I don't know how that will go down well with the people of the SE and SS cos they really feel the SW betrayed them 2014 which is unfortunately true.

If we make the mistake of continuous bickering and the north takes the advantage again,it's a pity cos.

AfonjaConehead:


1st thing 1st,what do you know?

SIRTee15:


I'm Yoruba but I want a southerner from either SE/SS to get the presidency in 2023. I don't support a Yoruba presidency.
Present Yoruba generation are too pro nigerian for my liking. Na them carry nigerian unity for head pass.

Besides, I don't trust any Yoruba politician to initiate the so much desired restructuring we desperately need in this country.
They are too comfortable with the present structure and only hope to be in charge..taking the larger portion of the cake.

South south politicians have learnt their lessons with Jonathan. They won't wait for any 2nd term to strike.

Though some ibo politicians no get sense, but the undying agitation for biafra in that region will be too hard for any ibo president to ignore. Something has to give..at least restructuring.

NaijirianKing:
This could happen, but with the realities on ground and the Igbo phobia that permutates most tribes, it would have to be a baby step before seeing a President of SE extraction.

The SE already controls commerce and the economy at a base level, the last thing Nigerians are trying to do is hand over the political structure to a group who controls the economy, what if they do something to control politics forever. One group having both control of the economy and politics would be unfair to others. These are the fears among Northern Nigerian elites. Many of our fathers lost friends, family and still remember the horrors of fighting the Easterners, there is still a sense that these people can do anything at any time. There is a fear and a respect, but the fear is greater. The new generation doesn't have as much fear for easterners as our fathers, but this will take time, I'm sure you understand.

A well performing VP of SE extraction may dissuade fears of Southeasterners in such a position, allowing in the future for such to happen. Politics is about realities not wishes.

If the entire south was unified behind a president of SE extraction, and then worked hard to sell the project to the North, then such could happen. If the numbers were there, we would have to accept such a candidate.

However, southern unity is a farce as "unity" according to the SW means the south supporting the SW to take a position that the others in the south are yet to have. Northern unity means NE/NC gets a position they have never held and SE gets the VP position, a position that they have not held in this democracy.

NE/NC candidate is simply more electable to the masses than SE. Politics is all about realities on ground. Under a Northern alliance the SE will get the VP, what will the SE get in an alliance with the SW? The SE man is politically wiser and is making smart moves to ally with the North at a time when the SW has become hostile to the North (Sunday Igboho, Oduduwa, Ameotekun, Anti-grazing, etc.)

bobowaja:

Who deh blackmail north? Definitely not us. We take power, we don't ask or beg for it. It is our turn to use APC and we will take it.

JimiJunji:


An Igbo presidency will actually kill/harm the biafran agitation and hilarious to believe that the any of them would initiate restructuring. Only wike has the balls to do that. What's funny and you may not agree with me is that someone like tinubu is most likely to restructure but that's one of the reasons the northern cabal won't allow him presidency, the man can't be controlled but unfortunately anti-yoruba sentiment has affected him. This is just my personal opinion tho.

LLiKYekoba:


You can continue your self-deceit propaganda. You stand where you stand, we stand rooted to where we stand. If it's only about voter's strenght not equity, justice and fairness, because you hate to see the East benefit, then go and wrestle the presidency alone from the north.. Case closed.

leokid866:

Please we don't know anything......enlighten us on great master of know it all....

NaijirianKing:
This is why the SE/SS should support the North for fairness and equity.

The Northern oligarchs are looking to give the NC/NE the Presidency and SE the VP. These regions have never held these positions.

The "south" or SW agenda is looking to make the SW Presidency at the expense of the greater south.

Northerners understand justice and fairness, this is why a Northern president is what is needed in 2023.

leokid866:

When Jona promised the southwest special status but sat on his hands for four years, what do you call that? in 2014-2015 he now started going from pillar to post kneeling down saying he will do better when we all knew it was lies.....when he was in power please point to one thing he did for the SW.....someone that did not even help his own state of bayelsa it is now the SW you expect to trust him?

AfonjaConehead:


You are just a layman and apparently a kid.. Was Jonathan the president of Bayelsa? Was he the president of the SW?

PDP zoned the house of reps speaker position to the SW and your own god tinubu manipulated your then ACN reps and sold the position to tambuwal/north and yet you people still heap the blame on GEJ!
If you know anything,you will remember how GEJ and OBJ got angry and went to the house only for the house to ask for forgiveness and saying they are independent!
Today Akinyemi Adeshina and Ngozi Okonjo Iweala are outstanding former GEJ's ministers and heading world organisations in different capacities and your ungrateful people still have the guts to say he abadined the SW!!!!
Again,what do you know?!

NaijirianKing:
NC/NE for Presidency and SE as VP is the winning combination. What other combination do you see beating the aforementioned?

bobowaja:

E pain am

NaijirianKing:
Not in this democracy. This is a new dispensation. NW had their shots under Yar'Adua and Buhari. SW had their shot with OBJ. The SS had their shot with Goodluck.

NC/NE/SE Nothing. These are the regions left to have the Presidency. You guys are well known for shifting the goal post... Continue, what's the difference between this dispensation and the old ones others never had a chance but you did and no one cried foul?