The myth that if northerner competes with a southerner for presidency the northerner will win easily is simply a myth and nothing more. This myth is being circulated now to make the two major political parties cede their ticket to the North. If for nothing atleast the GEJ and Buhari presidency debunk that myth that you need the core northerners to be president.
Prior to GEJ presidency when contested and won. He won majorly in the South and North Central region, the core North only voted Buhari. Buhari was only able to defeat GEJ when the North Central and South West flipped to his side.
As it stands presently any party that cedes it's presidential ticket to the North is losing scandalously to a Southerner, as the southerner will bank on vote from the south and North Central who have suffered much massacre from the core North in the name of religion.
Note: The Moslem North have had their turn. Anything short of a Christian south president is totally unacceptable.

South have the numbers they need in the middle belt but Afonja are always there to make it impossible......... Check my signature

Only a united south can do that and there’s nothing like United south anyways so north always have their way

If the South unites, plus the middle Belt, then the radical North will never smell the Presidency again.

That’s why they keep using divide and rule tactics, with willing tools in Yoruba Muslims who are loyal to the caliphate and not the South.