Professor Ango Abdullahi, Chairman of the Northern Elders Forum, said that the North can retain power for 100 years if it wants to, adding that governance is all about numbers and that the region has the numerical capacity to achieve it.

Abdullahi said this while commenting on possible permutations, as Nigeria is looking forward to another general election in 2023. He told Daily Sun that the North will only support national candidates in the 2023 presidential race.

He emphasized that zoning or power shift, which many southern leaders are agitating for is unconstitutional and would not be supported by northern leaders.

Asked if there was an unwritten agreement among northern leaders to oppose the return of the presidency to the south in 2023, Abdullahi said it was only the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that had a power shift agreement, adding that it is not in the Nigerian constitution. His words: “Zoning has no place or ground in the constitution of the federal republic of Nigeria.

It was a political party affair based on the willingness and agreement of members. No party has that arrangement except PDP. “81% of Buhari votes in 2015 and 2019 came from the north.

Though I am not a card-carrying member of any political party, I am not sure whether APC has any arrangement like this. “Hence, they don’t have the issue of power shift and zoning does not arise. It could be right or wrong to adopt it, yet the decision is left to the party. I think it’s something that we have to be careful about.

“I think there is nothing wrong at all if the north keeps power for a century because democracy is all about numbers and we have it.”

The party expressed confidence that nothing would stop the Igbo from taking over the presidency in 2023. Nigerian youth are ready to take over the leadership mantle.

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