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I’VE been amused by the strenuous efforts to explain exactly what Mamman Daura, President Muhammadu Buhari’s nephew, meant or did not mean when he said last week that rotating the Presidency was no longer useful., which has existed for decades without any translation problems, was clear enough: When the time comes, the next president should be chosen on merit, not on a “turn-by-turn” arrangement.
From the register of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, there’s roughly six million more registered voters in the North than in the South, but actual voter turnout tends to show a significant disparity of 2:1 or more in favour of the North. Not only do Northerners have the numbers, they also vote more.
It will not. And it has nothing to do with Daura but everything to do with the significant changes in electoral math that have occurred in the last two general election cycles and which could occur again, if politicians don’t pay attention to what matters.Once upon a time, there was the fable of the electoral tripod – a suggestion that you couldn’t form a national government except by having a leg in each of the pre-1966 regional structure of North, West and East.
Even if APC decides today to silence Daura by anointing a Southern candidate – a move that the PDP would certainly take advantage of by picking a Northern candidate and a running mate from the South East – it is improbable that the current electoral math, not to mention the security system, will work in favour of such a candidate.
Fair point. And who says that competence and equity are mutually exclusive? But this is where the argument ends. Flogging the issue might win social media eyeballs, but would hardly translates to victory at the polls. Even if Daura eats his words today and becomes the champion of a Southern candidate, it means nothing.
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