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ALTHOUGH he got fewer votes than he did in 2015, President Muhammadu Buhari secured enough votes at the February 23 presidential poll to be handed a re-election certificate.
The issue of the presidency going to the South-East or South-West in 2023 was one of the promises made at the presidential campaigns and town hall meetings of the APC. There is also the understanding that Atiku Abubakar would do a term so that power could rotate to the South-East, where his running mate, Mr. Peter Obi, hails from.are angling for the presidency. These politicians supported Buhari, who is seen as the shortest path to the throne.
A member of the last National Conference organised by the immediate past President Goodluck Jonathan Administration, said northern power brokers want the North to keep the presidency for 12 years because in the last 20 years of democratic rule, the South ruled for 14 years. The North wants 12 years at a stretch to compensate for the three terms that the South had since the return of civil rule in 1999 through Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and Dr. Goodluck Jonathan .
Unarguably, the South-East is the most marginalised in terms of power sharing in Nigeria’s 59 years history as an independent country.South-East is followed by North-East ; and South-South .
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