heysquare:

Tell that to an Hausa man and wait make he check something on your head. Is only Yorubas you can do that shit with

The Igbos didn't have any problem with the North in 2023. That's the fact. You can't change the narrative.

Regional government like we used to have it, the only way.

Power rotation is anti-democratic. It is a political elite conspiracy to turn political power to a commodity to be traded and negotiated instead of sought for from the electorate. It seems Kperoogi is not familiar with what democracy is about. It is about participation of the populace in the governance process.
Power rotation totally negate that as it excludes some parts of the country at one point or the other from being voted for.
Any country with different nationalities like Nigeria is better served with a regional or provincial govt with a weak centre. That way, the regions are able to determine the pace of development by themselves while the centre takes care of issues that are general in nature.
Power rotation breeds ethnoreligous politics more than any other thing and the attendant "it's our turn to chop" mentality.
What we should be advocating for is stronger regions and weaker center

WantsandMore:
what happens to the minority outside this sharing regional bloc then?

Jonathan won election as president. Anyone from the region whose turn it is can contest and be elected in as much as he has a national support base.

attacker321:


Can you in all sincerity tell us that it is not the turn of the Southeast to produce the president?

2023 was the turn of the south and not south east. Presidency has never been microzoned and will never be microzoned.

seunmsg:
I will support a constitutional provision to rotate the presidency between the south and the north on an 8 years basis. It will reduce the ethno-religious dimension in our politics.

That's a lie. 2023 elections became more about ethnicity and nothing else because of the agitation for Power shift. It is that same thing that led folks like you to support buhari in 2019 despite his glaring deficiencies, worse than that of Jonathan who was booted out of office for him because you all believed it will be your turn after him. So performance took second place to you guys.

misano:


I guess U are one of those mugs that was thinking PO will not will one state.

I guess u are one of those mugs who thought he was going to come above 3rd position.

seunmsg:


Jonathan won election as president. Anyone from the region whose turn it is can contest and be elected in as much as he has a national support base.

Jonathan's victory negated power rotation principle.
If it's about support base then the NW and SW will perpetually rule because they have the number.
From 1999 till now, the NW/SW have ruled for 19 out of 24 and as things stand will extend to 23 out of 27 at least.
That's what rotation will breed

seunmsg:


2023 was the turn of the south and not south east. Presidency has never been microzoned and will never be microzoned.

Why can't presidency be micro-zoned if it can be zoned at all. It is sheer hypocrisy to support zoning out of fear of domination by the North only to reject micro-zoning because your tribe holds the upper hand in that regard.
Moreover, presidency was micro-zoned in 1999 to SW

I used to like Prof. Farooq but I later discovered he is sometimes sentimental in his view. When the Southerners were clamouring for power rotation, Farooq and his Principal Atiku was the one that scattered it and frustrated them due to their personal gains. All these turechi is because it's not Atiku that won.

Secondly among those that contested for the Presidential election Obi's campaign strategies was the worst and most dangerous ones. He used both religion and ethnicity and also played along the emotional of the youths without considering the effects. I was telling someone that God shouldn't allowed Obi to win if not Nigeria will be worst than the Somalia.
The way out is the SE people needs to stop playing emotional political games and should know how to tolerate others people views. U can't put all your eggs in one basket and expecting to pick from the emptied basket.
U labelled Nigeria a zoo y, u called Yoruba so many derogatory names, u abused Hausa-Fulani, the same u abused someone's religion and then u wanted me to vote for u or wanted to rule over me. It is not done anyway like da.
I was among the pro SE but when their tactics became dangerous I have to reverted.

DeLaRue:
Before Primaries, he wrote that based on feelers from his contacts within Aso Rock and among Northern leaders, Tinubu's aspirations to win APC primaries would never happen.

After Tinubu won the primaries, he wrote that Tinubu was wasting his time and that all roads to any election success for him has been blocked.

After Tinubu's famous Emilokan speech, he wrote that the entire North was now totally against Tinubu and proclaimed that Tinubu was finished. Mr Kperogi hides his tribalism so well.

After Tinubu won the elections, he went quiet, no doubt embarrassed with himself.

Now, he is coming out trying to position himself as a detrabalised sensible writer genuinely concerned about Nigeria 's constitutional arrangements.

The man has been wrong time and again. His credibility is shot to pieces.

You write better than Farooq kpegori.

Gaabasky:
I used to like Prof. Farooq but I later discovered he is sometimes sentimental in his view. When the Southerners were clamouring for power rotation, Farooq and his Principal Atiku was the one that scattered it and frustrated them due to their personal gains. All these turechi is because it's not Atiku that won.

Secondly among those that contested for the Presidential election Obi's campaign strategies was the worst and most dangerous ones. He used both religion and ethnicity and also played along the emotional of the youths without considering the effects. I was telling someone that God shouldn't allowed Obi to win if not Nigeria will be worst than the Somalia.
The way out is the SE people needs to stop playing emotional political games and should know how to tolerate others people views. U can't put all your eggs in one basket and expecting to pick from the emptied basket.
U labelled Nigeria a zoo y, u called Yoruba so many derogatory names, u abused Hausa-Fulani, the same u abused someone's religion and then u wanted me to vote for u or wanted to rule over me. It is not done anyway like da.
I was among the pro SE but when their tactics became dangerous I have to reverted.

How was Obi's tactics the worst and most dangerous? Did Obi field a same faith ticket to attract voters from a part of the country based on religion or did he say "it's our turn"?
You sound brainwashed to be honest.

Kukutenla:

Why can't presidency be micro-zoned if it can be zoned at all. It is sheer hypocrisy to support zoning out of fear of domination by the North only to reject micro-zoning because your tribe holds the upper hand in that regard.
Moreover, presidency was micro-zoned in 1999 to SW

Tinubu just won an election against the most popular northern politician after Buhari and the most popular Igbo politician since Nnamdi Azikiwe. So you see, we are not afraid of northern domination or competitive election. We can hold our own under any arrangement. My support for rotational presidency is just for balancing and nothing else.

DeLaRue:
Before Primaries, he wrote that based on feelers from his contacts within Aso Rock and among Northern leaders, Tinubu's aspirations to win APC primaries would never happen.

After Tinubu won the primaries, he wrote that Tinubu was wasting his time and that all roads to any election success for him has been blocked.

After Tinubu's famous Emilokan speech, he wrote that the entire North was now totally against Tinubu and proclaimed that Tinubu was finished. Mr Kperogi hides his tribalism so well.

After Tinubu won the elections, he went quiet, no doubt embarrassed with himself.

Now, he is coming out trying to position himself as a detrabalised sensible writer genuinely concerned about Nigeria 's constitutional arrangements.

The man has been wrong time and again. His credibility is shot to pieces.

God go bless you. The man is as dangerous as people he castigated

I think this is a brilliant suggestion worth implementing

seunmsg:
I will support a constitutional provision to rotate the presidency between the south and the north on an 8 years basis. It will reduce the ethno-religious dimension in our politics.

How about extending that to SW,SS and SE, for example, when it comes to the South? I mean making it possible for each geopolitical zone to produce the president. Tinumbu is the second SW person to supposedly win while the SE hasn't had a go.

dyera:


The way Nigerian leaders become useless in their second tenure makes me believe 5yr single tenure is better. If you cannot fix the problem of the state in 5years then you should not bother contesting.

Due to the complexity of executive, high handedness and power drunkenness

5yrs is enough

seunmsg:


Tinubu just won an election against the most popular northern politician after Buhari and the most popular Igbo politician since Nnamdi Azikiwe. So you see, we are not afraid of northern domination or competitive election. We can hold our own under any arrangement. My support for rotational presidency is just for balancing and nothing else.

That's a bloody lie. Tinubu won because North voted for him. He didnt win because of SW votes alone. If all regions vote along their ethnic lines, you don't have the numbers, neither does the SE. If that were not so, you would not have been shouting power rotation.
Power rotation is a balancing act based on mundane sentiments and those who cry for balancing are those who are on the weaker side. If it were not so, your candidate wouldn't have fielded a same faith ticket to infiltrate the northern base, neither would he have been queuing behind northerners since 2007.

Just decentralize.

Strong center is the main problem.

Farooq my dear Cobb County neighbor, you are always on point!
IGBO LE KAN!!

I appreciate Dr. Kperoogi for this thoughtful and unbiased article. Indeed, if we were to constitutionalize power sharing based on identity, we wouldn't be the first country to do so. Countries such as Lebanon have had such systems for decades.

However, the question is this. Will the north agree? The north is dominant in terms of population and has had the lion's share of leadership since 1960, both civilian and military.

Predictably, they will continue to dominate for the foreseeable future. It's a numbers game.

Tinubu only won because of his religion, party and relationship with Buhari. The chances of a Christian Igbo, emerging President is next to zero. No matter his level of competence.

Why would the north agree to a power sharing formula when the current system favours them?

Na the Koko be that.

TheManPregnant:


Hmmm...

Or better still, let there be a constitutional provision for people to only be eligible to vote in their state of origin. This will help to allay the fears of a take over by another ethnic group in certain regions.

Contentious but credible idea. It has merit in redirect us back towards regionalism.

TheManPregnant:


Taxes will only guarantee you the right to live, school, work, do business, healthcare and have access to other social amenities in the region you live in. Voting will only be allowed in your state of origin.

We need to completely kill the type of ethnic propaganda that was spurn up during the last elections. The opportunity for irresponsible political actors and their surrogates to push us to the brink should be totally cut off.

A proposed ammendment to the electoral act and other areas of the constitution that concerns the right to vote to reflect this might just come up during the next national assembly.

Your point is baseless and mumuish in nature.
Take me for instance I'm a Yoruba man and my father is from osun state but I have never been to osun state because I was born and bred in Lagos. Are you saying I should leave Lagos for osun state where I have no connection anytime there's election?
You people need to think things through before opening up your mouth wa.
If that's the case even tinubu or Sanwoolu will have to go back to iragbiji and ijebu to contest and vote.
If you think this your point is to hunt igbos then I tell you millions of Yorubas like me will be hunted more.

SpecialAdviser:
Better it's done in 6 regions. There is no way Tinubu can secure up to a thousand vote if it was the turn of Yorubas and he is contesting against a seasoned technocrats. He is a druggie they all know. He is old and suffer dementia. Those who ralied behind him are just tribalists who don't care about the country for so long as their tribesman is in charge. Tinubu would not have even won primaries.

The same goes for Buhari lack of criticism from the north. As for Peter Obi, Igbo people will always rally behind him anytime anyday.
Especially the ordinary Igbos in the streets.

Why are u always bitter whenever u hear d name tinubu? If u read d young man analysis dat was exactly dat happened, tinubu won cos he chose d wrong equation dat will give him d sure answer.i keep telling pple when d choice of shetima was mentioned I told my friends dat is d only way tinubu will win dey were like he doesn't work but it take a man to make it work.i wonder how christian in this level d always feel dat d better pass muslim.my take is always if I was born into a muslim family I will be a muslim man today n since it's Christian so I am.

Any call for zoning should be on the basis of the six geopolitical zones. It can't be just south and north basis, that's if we still care about fairness in this country. It should also be a single term of 5 years. All this reelection desperation often lead to electoral fraud due to incumbency, and quite wasteful. Do your bit within the time frame and give way. The idea of someone winning an election and already claiming and planning on how to stay for eight, even when he has not stayed up to 2 yrs in office or done anything is insulting and ridiculous.

coleon:

Your point is baseless and mumuish in nature.
Take me for instance I'm a Yoruba man and my father is from osun state but I have never been to osun state because I was born and bred in Lagos. Are you saying I should leave Lagos for osun state where I have no connection anytime there's election?
You people need to think things through before opening up your mouth wa.
If that's the case even tinubu or Sanwoolu will have to go back to iragbiji and ijebu to contest and vote.
If you think this your point is to hunt igbos then I tell you millions of Yorubas like me will be hunted more.

Not everyone will agree with my submission, but you must admit that if we go forward with this, it will signal an end to ethnic tension in Nigeria.

TheManPregnant:


Taxes will only guarantee you the right to live, school, work, do business, healthcare and have access to other social amenities in the region you live in. Voting will only be allowed in your state of origin.

We need to completely kill the type of ethnic propaganda that was spurn up during the last elections. The opportunity for irresponsible political actors and their surrogates to push us to the brink should be totally cut off.

A proposed ammendment to the electoral act and other areas of the constitution that concerns the right to vote to reflect this might just come up during the next national assembly.

You should as well propose that people should go back to their states of origin during national census to be counted there,since population is a major determinat in resource allocation and number of seats allocated to each state in the national assembly.

Theagnosticdude:

You should as well propose that people should go back to their states of origin during national census to be counted there,since population is a major determinat in resource allocation and number of seats allocated to each state in the national assembly.

This can be part of it. Just like in the time of Jesus

Racoon:

https://www.farooqkperogi.com/2023/03/2023-election-highlights-imperative-of.html

So this man has brain like this? And ges wasting his destiny with PDP. Smh

MasterJayJay:

Taxes nko?

It is selfishness to take taxes from people and when it's time for politics, you remind them of their state of origin.

If you don't want non indigenes to vote, you should also stop collecting taxes from them.

Or better still they should take their economic and development power back to develop their state. You can't enjoy good hospitality and make profit in a state and not pay tax.