Battle For Presidency: Why North Should Wait Till 2027, By Ogbemudia

[Shola Sholaz]

The battle between the North and the South south over 2015 presidency took a twist as a two time former governor of the defunct Bendel State, Dr Samuel Ogbemudia, said the North has no claim to power until 2027.
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Ogbemudia argued that the North's right to the presidency would be valid after the South south would have completed eight years, and the South- east taken its turn of eight years.
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He acknowledged that South-west set the precedent when former President Olusegun Obasanjo, from the zone, did eight years at Aso Rock Presidential Villa.
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The Professor Ango Abdullahi-led Northern. Elders Forum (NEF) has been at the forefront of the agitation for power to return to the North in 2015 on the grounds that the region was short changed when President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, who assumed office in 2007, died midway into his tenure, and President Goodluck Jonathan, his deputy from the South-south, succeeded him.