No Yoruba President In Nigeria For Another 20 Years, By Femi Aribisala

…it will be the turn of a Southerner to be president again in 2023. That Southerner must, without controversy, be an Igbo man. Any right-thinking Nigerian must see that it is not only high time for this to happen, it is essential for our national integration. It will also signal to all intents and purposes that, after 50 years, the civil war is finally truly over.

The people who are already projecting a Yoruba president in Nigeria for 2023 are charlatans. They are up to no good and only hankering after juicy appointments for themselves or their godfathers, the better to rob the country blind. Believe me, they could not care less about the Yoruba. The just concluded 2019 election was also essentially a contest between two Northerners from the two major parties of the All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party : Buhari and Atiku. Whatever the conclusion of the tribunal about the fraudulent nature of that election, a Northerner would nevertheless have served as president for eight years by 2023.

That is why the statements already making the rounds about a Yoruba president in 2023 needs to be stopped immediately before even the mere expression does irreparable damage to the fragile Nigerian psyche.There is an unwritten understanding in this fourth Nigerian republic that the presidency should rotate between North and South. We started with Obasanjo, a Yoruba man from the South in 1999. That election was a straight contest between two Yoruba candidates – Obasanjo and Olu Falae.

This means it will be the turn of a Southerner to be president again in 2023. That Southerner must, without controversy, be an Igbo man. Any right-thinking Nigerian must see that it is not only high time for this to happen, it is essential for our national integration. It will also signal to all intents and purposes that, after 50 years, the civil war is finally truly over.

The only glue still holding APC together is the fact that the current president is from the party. Once Buhari goes, whether now or in 2023, that would be the end of APC. Already, the nPDP component of Atiku, Saraki and Tambuwal have returned to the PDP. The Action Congress of Nigeria component, under the leadership of Bola Tinubu, is now at loggerheads with the North-West redoubt, now spearheaded by Nasir El-Rufai.

Suegbe pastore (spartacus)

I think the guy is a pastor? Who told him so?

That is if Nigeria is still in existence

femiaribisala were alaso ni e sir. Don’t bother to explain why Yoruba cannot be President of the country again. Just explain why you have refused continually to seek help?

Omo ale!! That's what he knows best

Yinmu are you a God

Oga shut your mouth

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