No

1. Abubakar Tafawa Balewa | 1960-1963 - North East
2. Nnamdi Azikwe | 1963-1966 - South East

This is the result of not teaching History in schools.

Anybody will just write up anything and kids on internet will believe it.

Nigerialabalaba:
2. Nnamdi Azikwe | 1963-1966 - South East
3. Johnson Aguiyi Ironsi | 1966 - South East

why dos liars con dey lie say Ibo never rule befor

O lord, this guy is a stark illiterate

If South western candidates should be, then northern candidate should as well be there.

yamunla:
BOLA AHMED TINUBU

ON YOUR MANDATE I STAND


BAT 2023

Waoh, like you are presenting an aged Tinubu to lead Nigeria?

All things being equal, Tinubu is too old to be president.

Realists:
Fundamental human rights to be voted for & to vote, is an inalienable rights that can be denied to mankind.

If PDP chose to Atikulate because of $ 10,000.00, at the convention, I pray history writers will be fair to Northerners & write the truth that some hungry southerners choose money over national interest.

It's also an inalienable right of regions that formed a country to sit on a conference to agree on a political structure and governance system to serve them in the country.

Military dictators from one part of a country do not restructure a country politically, supervise a constition to legitimize the skewed and lopsided political structure they created, then the same soldiers impose the constitution upon the people and country.
But that's exactly the political restructuring and military constitution that northern Nigeria used its loyal military dictators to do to Nigeria, which grossly tilted political representation and presidential election process in favour of Fulani-controlled northern region of Nigeria.
The day the northern politicians agree to political restructuring of Nigeria democratically, zoning or rotation of the presidency between the north and the south shall be stopped.

Inalienable rights ke.
The skewed and lopsided political structure denied some Nigerian groups the inalienable right to get one of their members to be
elected president of Nigeria.

yamunla:
BOLA AHMED TINUBU

ON YOUR MANDATE I STAND


BAT 2023

You are standing alone

Standing alone on a mandate of calamity

gracealonev:
Aguiyi Ironsi caused the problem by leading the first coup that toppled a democratically-elected government and destroying federalism.

sorry !
Oh historian!

Nigerialabalaba:
2. Nnamdi Azikwe | 1963-1966 - South East
3. Johnson Aguiyi Ironsi | 1966 - South East

why dos liars con dey lie say Ibo never rule befor

The South East and the North East had a taste of power, that's, led Nigeria in the first republic. Since then, both has never been opportune to lead the country again. So when reference is made, it is usually to the fourth republic.

Emphasis is placed on the Igbos not leading Nigeria for long because the Igbos fall under the majority group in the country.

Hence, for fairness, South East ought to lead all things being equal. Then North East.

Williams3093:
Heads of State and Presidents of Nigeria Since Independence till date and their Zone

By Onyeke Ejike

1. Abubakar Tafawa Balewa | 1960-1963 - North East
2. Nnamdi Azikwe | 1963-1966 - South East
3. Johnson Aguiyi Ironsi | 1966 - South East
4. Yakubu Gowon | 1966-1975 - North Central
5.Murtala Rufai Mohammed | 1975-1976 - North West
6.Olusegun Aremu Obasanjo | 1976-1979 - South West
7.Alhaji Shehu Shagari | 1979-1983 - North West
8.Muhammadu Buhari | 1983-1985 - North West
9.Ibrahim Babangida | 1985-1993 - North Central
10.Ernest Adegunle Shonekan | 1993 - South West
11.Sani Abacha | 1993-1998 - North West
12.Abdulsalami Abubakar | 1998-1999 - North Central
13.Olusegun Aremu Obasanjo | 1999-2007 - South West
14.Umaru Musa Yar’Adua | 2007-2010 - North West
15.Goodluck Ebele Jonathan | 2010-2015 - South South
16.Muhammadu Buhari | 2015 - 2023 - North West

In the past 62 years of leading Nigeria post independence, the North through military heads and democratic presidents has led this country for 39 years. By the time Pa Buhari completes his tenure in 2023, the North must have led Nigeria for 40 years why the South has only led the country for 23 years. And I ask, should the North be in the ballot come 2023 presidential election?

This question brings us to issue of zoning. Zoning is always a beloved topic every time election is around the corner in our various locals, states and in the federal government. But in one way or the other, the greedy politicians who selfishly think leading is their birth right always find a way to subvert the interest of the less represented group. I say the interest of the most represented group because often time, it’s not because the marginalized group is the minority but because they have been intentionally removed from the spheres of influence and power even when in many cases, they are the powerful. This is not even my pain. My pain is the silence and should I say cluelessness and unpatriotic nature of the representatives of the marginalized. For instance those in the opposition party PDP who seems to have been bribed or cajoled into throwing the party ticket open because they may not have been able to build up a good argument for a Southern PDP presidential candidate.

Zoning may not be a constitutional provision in Nigeria but a social contractual obligation. According to social contract principle, we all agreed to come together to rest our political power in one man or group of men to represent our interest not merely according to the provision of the law nor the predispositions of gods but by the rational moral principles tending to the social good otherwise called the COMMON GOOD.

Although laws are explicit social contract such as that of the American constitution constituted by Americans from the circumstances of their co-existence, we cannot depend wholly on ours that was not entirely the dictate of our people hence do not always represent our whole experience as a conglomeration of nations. I hope the 2014 confab features zoning/rotational leadership from federal to local government. This is because it is rationally justifiable that there be an equal representation of all regions in the constitution of the government that manage the affairs that concern them and that entails rotational leadership.

Judging from our differences, this rotation should not only feature the North and South in the general perspective but the six constitutional geopolitical zones that make up this country. Hence, if we want to salvate this country, we must ensure that every zone in the country is always equally represented to give them a sense of belonging.

If someone from the South East is the president today, not only should a Northerner be the Vice, but a Northerner from the zone that should present the next president so that whoever becomes the Vice today will be someone who is expected to take over the presidency after the current administration. This will give room for the incoming president who was the vice to learn the problems of the the current administration and plan on how to salvage it with his team. If this is untenable, the vice should at least come from the zone that is least represented. That being the case, the Chief of Staff must be from another zone different from that of the president and vice, and the Secretary from another zone, the Senate president from another while the Speaker of the house should likewise come from the sixed zone in the light of the federal character principle.

But in a country filled with greedy and self centered politicians, the interest pf the public and the common wealth is not as important as their personal interest.

With the presence of the North in all sectors of the government in the current administration, they should not be in the ballot for the presidency come 2023. A Northerner should be a vice this time but not the president no matter the circumstances because the other region, the South has got credible candidates to succeed pa Buhari.

In the south, the South West and the South South haven been in power recently should give way and political support to the East for the sake of national integration as the East has not test power since the first republic. After the East in the South, the East in the North is expected to take over as they too have not tested power since independence.

In a Nutshell, Atiku Abubakar, Saraki, Bala Muhammad, Bello Yahaya and Aminu Tambuwal should Jettison their presidential ambition. They could pursue anything else for the sake of justice, and should support the South - the south east.

Number 2 above, Nnamdi Azikwe, was never Head of Nigeria's government. Tafawa Balewa was.

Get better informed when next you write.

Nigerialabalaba:
2. Nnamdi Azikwe | 1963-1966 - South East
3. Johnson Aguiyi Ironsi | 1966 - South East

why dos liars con dey lie say Ibo never rule befor

I don't think even your grand father was born in 1966

dialfa:


This is the result of not teaching History in schools.

Anybody will just write up anything and kids on internet will believe it.

Dear, if you have got a counter opinion or better understanding of the topic, put it down let's go through it together and learn from the best of the case.

onuman:


Number 2 above, Nnamdi Azikwe, was never Head of Nigeria's government. Tarawa Balewa was.

Go better informed when next you write.

This was a point of concern while writing this. I understand that Balewa being the PM still hard more power more than the president even after we got our independence. It is plausible to assert the Zik never had real presidential Power because of Balewa

gracealonev:
Aguiyi Ironsi caused the problem by leading the first coup that toppled a democratically-elected government and destroying federalism.

Go back and read your Country's history boy. Wikipedia is free.

yamunla:
BOLA AHMED TINUBU

ON YOUR MANDATE I STAND


BAT 2023

on his manhood I stand

What about the North East?

I don't think there will be election in the year 2023.

Werey dey disguise... You be Tinubu supporter. Has tinubu ever condemned all the evil being done by buhari's govt? Las las all of una go dey alright.

EnglandAmaka:
Though I don’t like Tinubu & never will but he has better chances to be APC’s candidate than Osinbajo. Osinbajo is only running for entertainment purposes. He is seen as a betrayal. As leader of the economic team under Buhari, he has destroyed the Nigerian economy. He also lacks the courage to speak truth to power. When the judiciary was humiliated, he did nothing to defend the profession. They used an exparte injunction to remove a CJN, harassed judges, disobeyed court judgments, violated human rights, killed protesters & he said nothing. On Igbo presidency I stand.

In a week that Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus, Vice President Yemi Osibanjo chose to betray his SOLE benefactor by declaring to run against him for Presidency.

I love his running but hate the timing.

I hate betrayal and those who carry it out. I will rather walk away than be part of those who will betray a man who has helped me enormously in life.

Hell no

No

I belive its the turn of the SE. If there is federal character in education and employment and also political appointment I think there should be zoning of the presidency.

Op please and please don't ascribe headship of government resulting from coup d'etat to the slot of any zone. Remember coup isn't a collective decision of the people in a given Zone, rather it's the forceful takeover of the Government by the brave in contravention of all known values.

Op please and please don't ascribe headship of government resulting from coup d'etat to the slot of any zone. Remember coup isn't a collective decision of the people in a given Zone, rather it's the forceful takeover of the Government by the brave in contravention of all known values.

From the records you presented, I can see south east leading the country twice as well as south west, so I wonder why they say south west shouldn't be on the balot.

A Northerner can even win sef and it will be legal and constitutional. The sky won't fall.

what kind of unconstitutional question is that??

What is democracy ? Military ruling is not a regional rule, the military can appoint anybody that is combating enough. You will not expect the military give chance to people that took arms against our country. But in democracy everybody have his right to contest.
When the military was ruling did You see anything like ballot paper?
This is democracy everybody have the right to contest or not.
The south has rule this country for 14 years while the north has on 10 years .
Atiku is the next president.

Good question, since 1960 no Ibibio man has been the president of Nigeria.
ONLY IBIBIO PEOPLE OR ANY OTHER TRIBE FROM THE STATE WITH THE HIGHEST CRUDE OIL PRODUCTION (AKWA IBOM STATE) SHOULD BE ON THE BALLOT.

Why not! Every single Nigerian is entitled to contest in accordance with Nigerian constitution.

dynicks:
Yes!! As it's eligibly everyone's right to contest!!

But everyone should bear in mind that CONSTITUTIONALLY, it's the turn of the SOUTH!!......SOUTHEAST TO BE SPECIFIC!!.....in all fairness!!....gasikya!!

which constitution? Biafra constitution or Nigerian constitution?
Why are you confusing yourself? You said the igbos are not the minority, then why not use your population to win the north which is minority?

dynicks:
Yes!! As it's eligibly everyone's right to contest!!

But everyone should bear in mind that CONSTITUTIONALLY, it's the turn of the SOUTH!!......SOUTHEAST TO BE SPECIFIC!!.....in all fairness!!....gasikya!!

No!

We want Biafra

Lamasta:
All I know is that power must return to the south for Equity Justice and Fairness

in 2011 when it was the time of the north,why did gej contest? Gej was told not to contest and allow a northerner to finish yaradua 4years tenure,but people like you supported him, now the chicken has come home to roost.