₦airaland Forum

Temidayo Akinsuyi, Lagos

Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), renowned professor of law and civil rights ac­tivist, on Monday, said it was the turn of southern­ers to produce President Muhammadu Buhari’s successor in 2023 in order to preserve the unity of the country and ensure justice and fairness.

Speaking exclusively with Daily Independent, Sagay, who is the Chair­man of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PA­CAC) and a chieftain of the ruling All Progres­sives Congress (APC), also said there was an informal zoning agreement which the party must honour in selecting the presidential flag bearer for the 2023 gen­eral elections.

According to him, even though the agreement was not written, the founders of the APC agreed that the presidency would move to the South after the North had completed two terms of eight years.

Sagay also said President Buhari shouldn’t be the one to determine his successor or come out openly to de­clare support for any of the aspirants, but only support his favoured aspirant with his vote.

“He (Buhari) shouldn’t be the one to determine who will be his successor. There is a process in the APC such as primaries.

“Also in the APC, there is informal zoning. They did not write the agreement down but everybody agreed that after a northerner has spent two terms in office, a southerner will be nom­inated by the APC as the presidential candidate.

“So, it is the turn of southerners to compete for nomination. The northern­ers would have completed their turn by 2023.This is just to ensure that there is unity, equity, and no zone takes the other for a fool".

“So, my belief is that the president is going to ensure that the candidate will be a southerner. He may support a can­didate with his vote but I don’t think it will be proper for him to come out to say ‘this is the man I want to succeed me’.The aspirants, who are southerners, should be given a level playing field to contest for votes from people who will vote at the primaries.”

Also speaking on the presidential ambition of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the party’s national leader, Sagay said nothing bars the former Lagos State gover­nor from contesting for the highest political office in the land.

“Definitely, he (Tinubu) is free to contest. He is a potential presidential can­didate with quite a number of others. Yes, there is no restric­tion or obstruction stop­ping him from contesting if he wants to,” he said.

https://www.independent.ng/2023-why-apc-should-nominate-southerner-as-presidential-candidate-sagay/

So even Sagay does not sees the futility of another APC/PDP ding dong on this nation given where Nigeria is today especially with the havoc his government have bequeathed in the last 5years? Yes! Nothing stops him, but how will a Tinubu presidency help Nigeria given what Buhari have done?

So Sagay does not see the viscious cycle Nigeria have been trapped in the past 60years of nationhood? Sagay does not sees the need for a thorough economic, political, & geographical restructuring of this contraption? See what politics can do to once sane minds.

Yes, he is a progressive and he is qualified as a Nigerian.

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The drug baron of Chicago

if tinubu saw buhari as messiah ,i wonder what it will look like for him to become president.is there still hope for this country

Anybody is free to contest but we are tired of old men without ideas.

We need something brilliant.......

When we were in Primary school....Our teachers told us that "We are leaders of tomorrow"

Local man just wonder when the tomorrow go come ni

Las las 100year old man go rule this country.... The first mess we got ourselves into, we're still in it, una don project the future already in the hands of another person that has enough and to spare!

How did we offend these politicians

We are still in 2021 and Covid never get cure. Let's live each day till 2023 comes abeg.

No one is sure if the next 3months not to talk of 2023.

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Bullion van drug baron, frog eyed imp, should not be allowed to even contest in the primaries because we will be enthroninh corruption just like Buhari deceived his zombies.

The best bet for the SW is Osinbajo

Hmmm.

This man is shaking a very dicey table.

Seems he doesn't know some unelectable people have their last hope hanging on Tinubu's eligibility or otherwise.

Let him contest. He will lose shamefully.
Someone that should be campaigning for his boy Osinbajo.

You don't need a soothsayer to tell you that Osinbajo has more national appeal than Tinubu. What's more, he will certainly make a better leader than him.

Besides, I am just wondering how the core north will allow a southern Muslim become president through the ballot box because they will lose their grip on national politics and treasury. A Muslim/Muslim ticket cannot fly in Nigeria because Nigeria is not Kaduna state.

Either way, I still agree with the lawyer that Tinubu has the right to contest in 2023.

Only Igbos on Nairaland politics section feel he shouldn't contest

Sunnycliff:
Bullion van drug baron, frog eyed imp, should not be allowed to even contest in the primaries because we will be enthroninh corruption just like Buhari deceived his zombies.

The best bet for the SW is Osinbajo

Kalu that was convicted by a court for stealing, is he still a senator or not?

Man proposes but Baba God disposes. Let's wait and see.

Starcrest1:
Anybody is free to contest but we are tired of old men without ideas.

We need something brilliant.......

Who is stopping you from contesting?

JAGABAN himself....

Oko iya dem wailers.....
Many people now love Jagaban more after all he faced during this #EndSars Protest.
Wailers are campaigning for his Presidency already, even before he declared anything.
What a miracle!

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Loud mouth Sagay

Jagaban of Nigeria :- The only nightmares of our Biafra brothers. Comrade Bola Hammed Tinubu for President of the federal republic of Nigeria 2023

A Professor of Law telling a well known criminal and drug Lord to contest for presidency?

Tinubu is free to contest, and sane Nigerians are also free to decide who will rule them.

Osinbajo and Akinwunmi are even better presidential candidates than a bullion van Chicago drug Baron.

The man is sick. Let's pray for his recovery first before anything

Buhari that doesn't flaunt wealth is currently a disaster.
You want bullion van master to become president?