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Ahmed Lawal, organising secretary of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Adamawa state, says power must shift to the southern part of Nigeria in 2023.

Lawal made the call in an interview with NAN in Yola, Adamawa capital, on Sunday.

He said there is need to demonstrate fairness in the polity, adding that the southern part of Nigeria supported the northern part to retain power for eight years.

He advised the APC to ensure power rotation in 2023 to enhance national cohesion.

Lawal rejected comments from those he called “some selfish northern politicians” intent on shortchanging the south in the scheme of power play.

The organising secretary said the proponents of power retention in the north are selfish as they cannot claim to be speaking for the entire north.

“We must rotate power to southern Nigeria for the spirit of equity, fairness and harmony,” he said.

“As far as Nigerian unity is concerned, power shift must become a stabilising principle so that no region will feel relegated and oppressed politically.

“It was instructive that our political leaders sought support from southerners while APC was mobilising during 2015 election.

“It is glaring that they cooperated well as no southern APC politician contested the primary election during 2015 and even in 2019.

“If we want to be fair to them, let’s allow them to have a feel of power come 2023. It is also instructive that those singing northern power retention cannot speak for the north because they are not authorised.

“As you can see, some of them who claim to be members of the APC, worked against the party in the just concluded governorship election to build up PDP to be able to achieve their sinister agenda.”

Babachir Lawal, former secretary to the government of the federation and Junaid Mohammed, a politician from Kano, had said rotation of the presidency to the south in 2023 is not automatic.

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Don't Mind Babachir Lawal,

Another hopeful scam.

Hmm

Las las APC will field a northern in 2023 and Yemi and Tinubu: E go do them like blue film

Yh. Power must change hand for real jare.


Don't mind the drunk man above me

All these back and forth argument don tire me

Hahaha. E go soon clear for their eyes.

Kk

Let me sit down here and watch till 2023

it is the PDP that will not Honour it. This I am sure of. Come 2023 the PDP will sell the ticket to the north because their presidential ticket has always gone to the highest bidder since 2003.

K

How can illiterate North be dictating to us?

We from south south will support any yoloba man the way yolobas supports GeJ in 2015.

Osibanjo for president

I'm an APC supporter but tell you the truth ...he is just playing politics with y'all

Are you talking of Yoruba presidency?

Are you minding those jubilating at the words of junaid and babachir

Dem don start anoda wayo wayo boju boju tins oo.......mayb dem still fall for am again

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Politics is all about give and take.

Ok

This is how you know that this country is cursed with bad and incompetent leaders... The new administration has not even started and who will become president by 2023 is the matter gaining national interest... Restructure this arrangement called Nigeria or we divide it... There is no other way than this two....

Babachair Lawal is just a thief, slowpoke and slowpoke. He has lost relevance and he is just desperate to make himself popular again after being disgraced out of office.

If the presidency is coming to the south in 2023 then it should be the turn of south east zone to get the slot if really we are preaching about equity and Fairness.

abeg give us oyinbo president jare

Therefore, according to FFK, Osunbajo, Tinubu and Osiomole are no longer slaves to the North because of personal opinions of few Northerners.

I pity the South Easterners because they will most likely not have a say except playing the second fiddle by supporting another Fulani man like Atiku to spite their percieved Yoruba enemy/competitor.

The illiterate North is politically intelligent while the so called educated South is politically naive.

Except the British come back to redress the mistakes of 1914, Nigeria might never work.

Igbo presidency come 2023.

SE/SS voted for Atiku (Obi), SW voted Buhari (Osinbajo). North voted Buhari. And the north is more populated than than the south. Who should win? Your guess is as good as mine. Now, the north knows their strength. If we can bring sb from Borno, and one from Benue or Kogi, as runningmate, we've won. That's the secret the south just exposed. This is a game, but politicians are gradually leading us to another civil war (God forbid).